Posted on 04/17/2018 6:19:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
After reading Mary Beth Pfeiffer's engrossing new book, Lyme, you will probably want to kill any tick you can find, donate to Lyme research, and find out if you are at risk for tick-borne diseases.
Spoiler alert: Your risk is likely increasing. Ticks, some of whom carry the pathogenic bacteria that causes Lyme, can now survive in environments where they would have frozen to death 30 years ago. The good news is that there's a lot of new research coming out about stopping and treating tick-borne illnesses, and a good new book that connects the dots between climate change, ticks, sick people, and policy.
As our planet's climate warms and ticks are more able to spread their infections, even more people will be infected around the world. If we don't find effective treatments for Lyme and agree on how to address these illnesses, the problem will become even more unmanageable.
Pfieffer's book is one of few places to get this sort of information on the history of Lyme and how it is connected to changing climate—writing on Lyme is usually directed at people with the disease and focuses on addressing their symptoms. It isn't the first piece published about Lyme and climate change, but it presents an in-depth view of a complex research field.
(Excerpt) Read more at psmag.com ...
…and halitosis.
Lyme Disease..
..American Tax Dollars at Work!!
It is also causing a lot of people’s hemorrhoids to flare up.
Bull. It is called WEATHER.
Well, the good news is that this winter is really nailing the poor critters.
On a related note, near my home in south-central KY a bunch of photographers with 2 foot lenses on their cameras were getting extremely rare shots of a Canadian Snowy Owl. They should not be this far south, but apparently the beaches in Canada are just too darned warm for them this year - or something like that.
And l have noticed an uptick in BS climate change stories.
A few foxes and cougar apparently do wonders for suppressing the tick cycle.
There has been no statistically significant, measurable climate change in the last 60 years so it is hard to see how this can be true.
What there has been is an explosion in the tick bearing wildlife population in the areas with Lyme disease due to habitat restoration and wild life preservation programs
Stop it. No it's not.
If I was the CEO of Starbucks I’d blame the arrest of the two guys in Philly on climate change.
He’ll be home-free. After all, since climate change is settled science, no one can contradict his claim without being a science-hating troglodyte.
Of all the “settled” sciences, climate change is far and away the most capable...
I mean, Newton’s Laws are like mere parking regulations compared to the power of the Law of Climate Change.
The ticks are so happy, /sarcasm
If you don’t kill every tick you find, there is
something wrong with you!
If “climate change” was eradicated, there would still be dinosaurs...but no liberals with superiority complex telling us how to live.
Too many anti-gun, anti-hunting liberal tree huggers in the sticks now...
“While DDT is highly toxic to insects and fish and can poison other animals in large enough doses, in moderate amounts it’s not especially harmful to birds and mammals, including humans.” straitdope.com
Climate ticks? More fake science.
Exactly.
Greater numbers of white-tail deer = far greater numbers of deer-ticks = greater probability of human contact with deer-ticks = greater probability of transfer of Borelia bacteria from deer-ticks to humans = greater numbers of humans contracting Lyme disease.
Wildlife experts say that there are more white-tail deer in Virginia right now than there were in 1607 when the Jamestown settlers landed.
This is more Al Gore BS. Where we live the weather man says this is the coldest start to an April in 140 years. It is absurd how cold it is and some areas are experiencing the biggest blizzards of the whole winter.
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