Posted on 04/26/2023 8:48:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Warmer, wetter conditions mean tropical diseases like dengue and chikungunya are spreading, says Lara Williams for Bloomberg Opinion
.When you think of dangerous animals, the ones that typically spring to mind have teeth or claws. But what about wings and a proboscis?
In many countries, mosquitoes are nothing more than a nuisance. But in others, they spread tropical diseases that kill at least 700,000 people a year - more than any other animal, according to estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO). Unfortunately, they’re likely to get deadlier. As greenhouse gas emissions make our planet hotter and wetter, disease-spreading mosquitoes are thriving.
With nations in South America battling some of the worst outbreaks of mosquito-borne disease in decades, the case of a British woman who caught dengue while on holiday in France last summer has sparked warnings about similar outbreaks in countries where insect-carried pestilence hasn’t previously been endemic. Climate change is making tropical diseases everybody’s problem.
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OMG! We’re all gonna die...again.
LOL! Touché !!!
The purple martins are fun to watch. They dive bomb moths, mosquitos all day.
Put the birdhouse on a tall pole.
If only there was a cheap and safe chemical that could be deployed to destroy mosquito populations...
One of my bat houses is by my sixty foot by forty foot pond on a fifteen foot pole. I’ll attach it to the back side of it. Should be a good combo against flying insects.
Yet another “fear everything” article.
The once had a solution for mosquitos, then they banned it.
I suppose the author was never in Maine, Minnesota or Alaska in the spring after those freezing winters. and those summers are not very hot.
For anyone else curious, Channel News Asia is state run media.
Shut up!!!!!
This reads like desperation.
When I was stationed in Panama while in the Army, the multi storied barracks on base had tiled roofs that the bats lived in. Every evening like clockwork, the bats would fly out by the tens of thousands then back in at dawn.
DDT will take care of the squitos.
Give it a break. I hardly see them anymore, here in New Jersey.
More food for humans.
Do they get stuck in your teeth?
Did the little buggers “overwhelm” the medical system during the Medieval Warm Period between c. 950-1250?
Or is that somehow not relevant?
Chinese propaganda.🤨
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