World's deadliest diseases are coming to Britain - because of climate change

A deadly disease that kills up to half of everyone it infects is on its way to the UK because of climate change, leading experts claim. A number of diseases carried by mosquitoes and ticks could be on their way to Britain thanks to warming temperatures experts have warned with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever already reaching France according to tracking by the World Health Organization Professor James Wood, head of veterinary medicine at Cambridge University, told MPs on the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee it was 'highly likely' CCHF would reach the UK in the future. He also said Rift Valley Fever, a virus carried by mosquitoes, which can kill up to half of patients who catch a severe form of the disease, is another pathogen likely on its way. CCHF, a tick-borne virus, has a mortality rate of up to 40 per cent according to the World Health Organization and causes symptoms similar to Ebola. Yesterday, Namibia's health ministry revealed one man had been killed by the disease, placing the country on high alert Zika virus is a flavivirus - a type of RNA virus - transmitted to people through the bite of infected female mosquitoes Dengue fever is a viral infection transmitted by mosquitoes that has been historically confined to tropical or subtropical climates.