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Climate warming brings dengue fever to Nepal's high-altitude regions

Rising temperatures in the Himalayan mountains are enabling disease-bearing mosquitoes to spread to higher elevations in Nepal, marking a shift in where infectious diseases pose health risks as the planet warms.

First covered Nov 7, 2026 · 2:00 AM PT · 1 article

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4d Inside Climate News Climate Change Is Bringing Dengue Fever to the High Himalayas — The warming of Nepal’s mountains is dramatically transforming some of the grandest landscapes on Earth, leading melting glaciers to collapse, thawing…

Primary sources

cr.usembassy.gov Health Alert: Surge of Dengue Cases (October 25, 2024)

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Meta-Analysis of Dengue Severity during Infection by Different Dengue Virus Serotypes in Primary and Secondary Infections

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 27005721 (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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gavi.org Climate change threatens mountainous Nepal with a spike in dengue infections

reliefweb.int Nepal: Dengue Surge Exposes Climate Risk - Nepal

nepalitimes.com Mosquitos ascend to the base of Mt Everest - Nepali Times

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Rising dengue burden in high-altitude central Nepal: evidence from a population-based longitudinal serosurvey, 2019-2023 - PMC

foreignpolicy.com Climate Change Opens Up Himalayas to New Diseases

Appeared in: 2026-11-09 (#17)

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