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Our Planet, Ourselves: How Climate Change Results in Emerging Diseases
Scientific American ^ | April 17, 2018 | By Mariette DiChristina

Posted on 04/17/2018 9:25:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Mosquitoes—and the viruses that they carry—are pushing up the incidence of malaria globally and causing periodic explosive outbreaks of Rift Valley fever, which first brings on flulike symptoms but can turn into a severe hemorrhagic fever akin to Ebola. Bluetongue virus, a ruminant virus spread by midges that was once confined to tropical areas, has reached as far as Norway. Studies have shown shifts in cholera transmission with recent climate variability. As emerging diseases migrate to new areas, they encounter new species, making outbreaks even more difficult to manage.

Unfortunately, writes journalist Lois Parshley in her feature article “Catching Fever,” the common enabler for the movement of each of these ailments is human-caused climate change. As weather patterns wreak more havoc, a Pandora's box of microbes enters new terrain, stressing global public health systems.

(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism


1 posted on 04/17/2018 9:25:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Mosquitoes—and the viruses that they carry—are pushing up the incidence of malaria

If only man had invented a large-scale means of destroying mosquitoes and their colonies decades ago.

Oh wait. He did....

2 posted on 04/17/2018 9:26:20 AM PDT by relictele
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t these people ever get tired of lying?


3 posted on 04/17/2018 9:27:11 AM PDT by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s letting into Western nations and scattering the disease ridden populations around the world that’s creating “Emerging Diseases”...............


4 posted on 04/17/2018 9:28:42 AM PDT by caww
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Belief in man-made climate change has been shown to cause interior cranial sclerosis.


5 posted on 04/17/2018 9:30:03 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
the common enabler for the movement of each of these ailments is human-caused climate change.

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6 posted on 04/17/2018 9:34:47 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

DDT


7 posted on 04/17/2018 9:46:15 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
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To: carriage_hill

and chlordane


8 posted on 04/17/2018 9:48:21 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Mosquitoes—and the viruses that they carry—are pushing up the incidence of malaria globally

When did the Plasmodium protozoa become a virus, "Scientific" American?

9 posted on 04/17/2018 10:15:16 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The assumption of this piece is that warming temperatures promote mosquito proliferation and hence, more malaria.

In fact, the worst outbreak/pandemic of malaria in recent times occurred in the USSR in Siberia in the 1920s. And it lasted throughout several summer/winter cycles. More ignorance from the "settled science" crowd.

10 posted on 04/17/2018 10:24:44 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: relictele

Malaria is not caused by a virus, although it is spread by mosquitoes.


11 posted on 04/17/2018 10:51:19 AM PDT by VietVet
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To: JayGalt

Three of these in almost a row are by women.


12 posted on 04/17/2018 3:54:48 PM PDT by arthurus (D)
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Such a shame when science is perverted for $ & power.


13 posted on 04/17/2018 7:17:04 PM PDT by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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