Posted on 08/16/2007 9:31:46 AM PDT by grandpa jones
Scientists at the University of Hull are working on an improved treatment for a debilitating flesh-eating disease which appears to be on the rise due to ………………………………………………………………
wait for it…………………………………………………………………………………….
GLOBAL WARMING !!!!!!!
Leishmaniasis, a flesh-eating disease, is expected to increase dramatically if global warming trends continue.
Should global warming continue to ravage our planet at current rates, the numbers of people suffering Leishmaniasis, a flesh-eating and sometimes fatal disease will increase dramatically, experts warn. Leishmaniasis is caused by a parasite transmitted via sand fly bites usually found only in tropical climates. Rising temperatures will increase the number of countries the sand fly colonises, moving further north and through Europe.
Due to travel and tourism, nations affected are already on the increase. Military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan are also exposed to the conditions associated with contracting Leishmaniasis.
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Again?
But I don't feel the least bit sick...
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I already wipe myself with my bare hand. What more can I do?
Sounds like something that old drunk comic would say—leishmanisis...what was his name? More GWBS. We’re all gonna die!!! Run around like a headless chicken. Feel better now?
BTW, anyone else hear that Newsweek’s next issue will have ‘GLOBAL WARMING IS BS’(not verbatim) as it’s cover story?
Vibrio vulnificus is a bacterium in the same family as those that cause cholera, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It lives in warm seawater and is part of a group of Vibrios that are called “halophilic” because they require salt.
thanks
A little morning melodrama.
Fat Algore is a flesh eating disease!
Lunacy is on the rise, due to Global Warming!
Frostbite is on the rise due to global warming.
“BTW, anyone else hear that Newsweek’s next issue will have ‘GLOBAL WARMING IS BS’(not verbatim) as it’s cover story?”
Seriously?
Won’t all these flies which carry this disease be killed by global also?
Here’s a link, tho not the best. Scroll down slightly and is on the left.
Prolly want the link eh? and its on the right side and down a little.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20122975/site/newsweek/
Sorry, these people always look like hometown actor rejects.
Sorry, these people always look like hometown actor rejects.
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