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Health concerns
Climate change may affect the Health status of the population in several ways :
 * Warmer weather conditions can affect the elderly and vulnerble people in periods of extremely warm weather.
 * Spread of vector borne diseases, in particular tick borne infections like lyme disease (borreliosis) and tick borne encefalitis. Ticks have spread northwards and can now even be found in the regions of Norrland. Also, there are still five species of mosquitoes in Sweden that may spread the malaria parasite. With the last indigenous case reported in the 1930s, a few new cases of malaria may appear with increasing temperature. The anopheles species of mosquitoes that spread the malaria parasite are sensitive to weather conditions that can be affected by climate change. Increased precipitation affects the number of hatching places of the mosquitoes, while an increase in humidity and temperature increases the Life span of the mosquitoe and the development of the malaria parasite inside the mosquitoe.
 * Quality of water and food can be affected with higher temperatures in the summer.
 * Air quality may be changed with a different composition of dust and pollen grains.  Studies of future scenarios Project that the spreading of ragweed northwards may cause new cases of allergy and asthma.