6 Accounting for Health Impacts of Climate Change Typhoid Cases and Temperatures in Kathmandu Valley, 2006 40 100 Typhoid cases 80 30 60 20 40 10 20 0 Temperature (°C) Figure 4 0 Jan Feb Mar Apr May June Typhoid Cases July Aug Min. Temp. Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temp. Jan = January, Feb = February, Mar = March, Apr = April, Aug = August, Sep = September, Oct = October, Nov = November, Dec = December, °C = degree Celsius, Min. Temp. = minimum temperature; Max. Temp. = maximum temperature. Source: Patan Hospital records. Typhoid Cases and Rainfall in Kathmandu Valley, 2006 100 800 80 600 60 400 40 200 20 0 Rainfall (mm) Typhoid cases Figure 5 0 Jan Feb Mar Apr May June Typhoid Cases July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Precipitation Jan = January, Feb = February, Mar = March, Apr = April, Aug = August, Sept = September, Oct = October, Nov = November, Dec = December, °C = degree Celsius, mm = millimeter. Source: Patan Hospital records. approximately tenfold (Table 2).4 Over this 48-year period, more people in Asia and the Pacific have been affected by floods, droughts, and storms than in any other region of the world: 83% of all people affected by droughts, 97% of all people affected by flood, and 92% of all people affected by storms over the period 1960—2007 resided in East Asia, the Pacific, and South Asia. Figure 6 shows a wealth of extreme weather events in Tajikistan solely over a brief period in 2005. 4 The increase in the number of affected people cannot be accounted for solely by an increase in population. Over the same period, the world population approximately doubled, from 3.2 billion to 6.5 billion.