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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015

Climate change causing more infectious diseases to arise: Study

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Source:     newseveryday
Publication Date:     17 Feb '15 00:39AM
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Stephan:   To understand the true dimension of this consequence of climate change remember that the spread of disease described in this report is coming at the same time that antibiotic medicine is struggling due to overuse in industrial chemical agriculture and husbandry. We are literally creating this crisis at both ends, and for the same reason in both instances. Profit is the only priority. Wellness is not a consideration. This worldview cannot endure.
Lyme disease bacteria Credit: hansacenter.com

Lyme disease bacteria
Credit: hansacenter.com

According to Daniel Brooks of the Laboratory of Parasitology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the appearance of diseases in new places and new hosts will be par for the course as the climate continues to change. We have already seen this to an extent with diseases such as West Nile virus and Ebola, but those won’t be the last.

Professor Brooks says it will be ‘the death of a thousand cuts’ with society unable to keep up with the speed of disease as it spreads around the world.

“It’s not that there’s going to be one ‘Andromeda Strain’ that will wipe everybody out on the planet,” Brooks said, referring to the 1971 science fiction film about a deadly pathogen. “There are going to be a lot of localized outbreaks putting pressure on medical and veterinary health systems. It will be the death of a thousand cuts.”

Each has observed the arrival of species that hadn’t previously lived in that area and the departure of others, Brooks […]

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