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Study connects climate hazards to 58% of infectious diseases
The Associated Press ^ | August 8, 2022 | By SETH BORENSTEIN (D-AP)

Posted on 08/08/2022 10:24:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax, a study says.

Researchers looked through the medical literature of established cases of illnesses and found that 218 out of the known 375 human infectious diseases, or 58%, seemed to be made worse by one of 10 types of extreme weather connected to climate change, according to a study in Monday’s journal Nature Climate Change.

Doctors, going back to Hippocrates, have long connected disease to weather, but this study shows how widespread the influence of climate is on human health.

“If climate is changing, the risk of these diseases are changing,” said study co-author Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Doctors, such as Patz, said they need to think of the diseases as symptoms of a sick Earth.

“The findings of this study are terrifying and illustrate well the enormous consequences of climate change on human pathogens,” said Dr. Carlos del Rio, an Emory University infectious disease specialist, who was not part of the study. “Those of us in infectious diseases and microbiology need to make climate change one of our priorities, and we need to all work together to prevent what will be without doubt a catastrophe as a result of climate change.”

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1 posted on 08/08/2022 10:24:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives support from several private foundations.
2 posted on 08/08/2022 10:25:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Study concludes that 99% of lies since Obama took office came form the deep state media.


3 posted on 08/08/2022 10:28:01 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Your SUV gave me Monkey Pox.


4 posted on 08/08/2022 10:29:46 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. It's "whatever".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened . . . "

It's funny how "climate change" produces entirely opposite effects.
5 posted on 08/08/2022 10:32:01 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

From a journal called “ Climate Change “.

Do ya’ think that they have to create stupid stories like this to stay in existence ?


6 posted on 08/08/2022 10:32:17 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The climate scam is fast becoming ridiculous.


7 posted on 08/08/2022 10:32:19 AM PDT by Blennos
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The propagandist media climate-change flow chart;

Name a thing or topic.

Is it bad?
If yes, blame climate change for it or project it’s increase.
If no, skip to “good” or start over (pick new topic)

Is it good?
If Yes, claim that climate change threatens it
If no, see “bad” or start over (pick a new topic)


8 posted on 08/08/2022 10:33:02 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t worry Pfizer is coming out with a vaccine to neutralize the effects of climate change.


9 posted on 08/08/2022 10:34:20 AM PDT by Baldwin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Was death by lightning included? 🙅


10 posted on 08/08/2022 10:34:25 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Blennos

That ship sailed a long time ago


11 posted on 08/08/2022 10:34:56 AM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Awaiting the news article that the Associated Press died from bullshittery poisoning.


12 posted on 08/08/2022 10:35:14 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Late for a party? Miss a meeting? Forget to pay your rent? Blame climate change; everyone else is doing it. From an increase in severe acne to all societal collapses since the beginning of time, just about everything gone wrong in the world today can be attributed to climate change. Here’s a list of 100 storylines blaming climate change as the problem.

1. The deaths of Aspen trees in the West
2. Incredible shrinking sheep
3. Caribbean coral deaths
4. Eskimos forced to leave their village
5. Disappearing lake in Chile
6. Early heat wave in Vietnam
7. Malaria and water-borne diseases in Africa
8. Invasion of jellyfish in the Mediterranean
9. Break in the Arctic Ice Shelf
10. Monsoons in India
11. Birds laying their eggs early
12. 160,000 deaths a year
13. 315,000 deaths a year
14. 300,000 deaths a year
15. Decline in snowpack in the West
16. Deaths of walruses in Alaska
17. Hunger in Nepal
18. The appearance of oxygen-starved dead zones in the oceans
19. Surge in fatal shark attacks
20. Increasing number of typhoid cases in the Philippines
21. Boy Scout tornado deaths
22. Rise in asthma and hayfever
23. Duller fall foliage in 2007
24. Floods in Jakarta
25. Radical ecological shift in the North Sea
26. Snowfall in Baghdad
27. Western tree deaths
28. Diminishing desert resources
29. Pine beetles
30. Swedish beetles
31. Severe acne
32. Global conflict
33. Crash of Air France 447
34. Black Hawk Down incident
35. Amphibians breeding earlier
36. Flesh-eating disease
37. Global cooling
38. Bird strikes on US Airways 1549
39. Beer tastes different
40. Cougar attacks in Alberta
41. Suicide of farmers in Australia
42. Squirrels reproduce earlier
43. Monkeys moving to Great Rift Valley in Kenya
44. Confusion of migrating birds
45. Bigger tuna fish
46. Water shortages in Las Vegas
47. Worldwide hunger
48. Longer days
49. Earth spinning faster
50. Gender balance of crocodiles
51. Skin cancer deaths in UK
52. Increase in kidney stones in India
53. Penguin chicks frozen by global warming
54. Deaths of Minnesota moose
55. Increased threat of HIV/AIDS in developing countries
56. Increase of wasps in Alaska
57. Killer stingrays off British coasts
58. All societal collapses since the beginning of time
59. Bigger spiders
60. Increase in size of giant squid
61. Increase of orchids in UK
62. Collapse of gingerbread houses in Sweden
63. Cow infertility
64. Conflict in Darfur
65. Bluetongue outbreak in UK cows
66. Worldwide wars
67. Insomnia of children worried about global warming
68. Anxiety problems for people worried about climate change
69. Migration of cockroaches
70. Taller mountains due to melting glaciers
71. Drowning of four polar bears
72. UFO sightings in the UK
73. Hurricane Katrina
74. Greener mountains in Sweden
75. Decreased maple in maple trees
76. Cold wave in India
77. Worse traffic in LA because immigrants moving north
78. Increase in heart attacks and strokes
79. Rise in insurance premiums
80. Invasion of European species of earthworm in UK
81. Cold spells in Australia
82. Increase in crime
83. Boiling oceans
84. Grizzly deaths
85. Dengue fever
86. Lack of monsoons
87. Caterpillars devouring 45 towns in Liberia
88. Acid rain recovery
89. Global wheat shortage; food price hikes
90. Extinction of 13 species in Bangladesh
91. Changes in swan migration patterns in Siberia
92. The early arrival of Turkey’s endangered caretta carettas
93. Radical North Sea shift
94. Heroin addiction
95. Plant species climbing up mountains
96. Deadly fires in Australia
97. Droughts in Australia
98. The demise of California’s agriculture by the end of the century
99. Tsunami in South East Asia
100. Fashion victim: the death of the winter wardrobe

https://www.dailysignal.com/2009/11/17/global-warming-ate-my-homework-100-things-blamed-on-global-warming/


13 posted on 08/08/2022 10:35:28 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: rktman

Or just infectious diseases. Those could be avoided safely and effectively. Rumor has it.


14 posted on 08/08/2022 10:35:55 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We had no diseases before global warming.


15 posted on 08/08/2022 10:36:23 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The propaganda is getting thick.


16 posted on 08/08/2022 10:36:33 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: mountainlion

The biggest lie is that Obama was ever eligible.


17 posted on 08/08/2022 10:37:19 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
You've been forgetting to post the picture of the author...


18 posted on 08/08/2022 10:37:57 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Bob434

In reality, it’s always the cooling periods that cause the most deaths by illness. The Bubonic Plague killed probably 60% of Europe during the Little Ice Age.


19 posted on 08/08/2022 10:39:12 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Seth Borenstein is a climate propagandist.


20 posted on 08/08/2022 10:39:42 AM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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