Posted on 06/21/2018 11:27:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Rising temperatures from climate change are driving animals northward into new environments, raising concerns that pathogens hitching a ride may bring new diseases -- especially to southern U.S. states, including Louisiana.
The world's warmest and wettest climates are home to some of its most worrying diseases like dengue, yellow fever and malaria. Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states could become a portal through which new diseases enter the United States, carried in the bloodstream of northward-bound species, scientists say.
The warning comes as an Associated Press analysis this week of temperature data shows widespread and faster warming over the past three decades in the United States, correlated with the past 30 years of intensified carbon emissions by humans.
Though lower-income residents typically contribute the least to carbon emissions driving climate change, they are often the hardest hit by new diseases it brings. Their vulnerability sparks a vicious cycle of delayed detection and hindered disease control.
Lower-income residents may also be less able to seek medical attention, and less likely to be counted in outbreak reports. This can slow responses by medical professionals, research epidemiologists, and insurance companies, who may deny coverage for symptoms with undocumented causes. The delay can mean decades of suffering without a diagnosis, as well as unchecked spread of the disease.
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If AGW is a cause for migration then why are AGW migrants coming to America? Is it not warming in America as well? Will AGW cause Americans migrate as well?
Animals never migrated anywhere for 3.8 billion years ...
until the mid-20th century and the appearance of man-made CO2 ...
which was diabolically designed to be different than natural CO2.
Though lower-income residents typically contribute the least to carbon emissions driving climate change...
Right, cooking over dung fires doesn’t contribute much.
What are the Liberals going to do about that?
Yet they don’t care about illegal aliens doing exactly this.
OMG OMG OMG
most actually being human illegal aliens bringing in third world diseases and drug resistant ones (most non-human animal diseases dont much affect humans)
Yes, the wretched refuse from all the teeming shores are bringing all kinds of diseases and parasites. It has nothing to do with climate change, and everything to do with non-existent borders.
MS 13 animals.
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