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Vibrio cholerae

   https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/ or https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/ ;The U.S. has sustained 395 weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including CPI adjustment to 2024). The total cost of these 395 events exceeds $2.770 trillion.
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2024 in Progress…
In 2024 (as of August 8), there have been 19 confirmed weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each to affect United States. These events included 15 severe storm events, 1 tropical cyclone event, 1 wildfire event, and 2 winter storm events. Overall, these events resulted in the deaths of 149 people and had significant economic effects on the areas impacted. The 1980–2023 annual average is 8.5 events (CPI-adjusted); the annual average for the most recent 5 years (2019–2023) is 20.4 events (CPI-adjusted).
DJ, What costs do you include as Climate costs and why? 

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk4500 or https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk4500 ;
However, there is also a new threat that is being overlooked—the interaction between climate change and infectious diseases. A comprehensive meta-analysis revealed that climate change could aggravate more than 50% of known human pathogens. Unfortunately, this is happening now.

Since the last big wave of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)—the omicron variant—less than 2 years ago, a range of pathogens have suddenly emerged. Some are not well-known, such as mpox and chikungunya virus; others have been known about for centuries, such as Vibrio cholerae (which causes cholera) and Plasmodia parasites (which cause malaria). There is even the prospect that pathogens frozen in the permafrost, for which no immunity currently exists, may be released as the climate continues to warm. 

Such a notion may be considered alarmist. And some people may think neither climate change nor epidemics are real or that both will pass. However, there is overwhelming evidence that climate change is fueling disease outbreaks and epidemics and that it is not a matter of if, but when, such events will precipitate another pandemic.
DJ, Statistics have limits but how likely is it that climate "change" and "pandemics" -pure on statistics- are NOT related...? 

One way of looking at it may be from a history-timeline perspective..."A big undetailed picture" with experts further looking for the details...African Swine Fever on a global scale 2018-2020 followed by CoViD in 2019...Mpox going wild since 2022...H5N1 has been around for some time but also now is at an unseen scale...

The Spanish Flu and World War One IS related...How it interacted is however part of a major discussion...

So linking climate "collapse" with pandemics is a "first step" -however it is a big step forward !