1. Global Dimension & Climate Change Session 4: Flooding and disease

2. Session 4 Objectives: All pupils will be able to explain how flooding may increase incidence of diseases. Most pupils will be able to explain specific examples of diseases in flood hit areas and explain significance of these. Some pupils will be able to interpret graphical representations of diseases in flood hit areas between two different places.

3. Flooding and disease READ the Doctors report from Pakistan. – What do you think about it? – Would this happen in this country? Why not?

4. Cholera around the world in 2009 What does this map show?

5. Flooding and disease in Pakistan DiseaseNumber of cases Cholera29 457 Dysentery13 496 Acute diarrhoea36 000

6. So, why don’t we get cases of cholera following flooding in Britain?