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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You talking’ bout muslims?
Warming, like 10, 20 degrees or what?
[[Animals moving north may bring new diseases]]
Did they just call mexicans animals?
see Libs- we can play your games too
Another day another globull warming scare.
Propaganda with a local LA touch—very clever—not!
Have any of these sources EVER cited a possible benefit to a warmer planet? Even one?
It seems to be about all the dire things that COULD happen. I wonder if growing oranges in Siberia would be a good thing.
I’d like to surf Antarctica beaches.
Yet NEVER a mention of the effect of IMMIGRATION on habitats, forests, prairie, farmland, ANIMALS, birds, bees, butterflies, grazing, clearing, pollution, traffic, et al
Anyone who thinks bringing all these people here, and especially the rate they breed, doesn’t adversely affect the environment is either biased, or nuts
BTW, foreigners don’t give a FF about the trees, birds, native plants, whatever. It’s all about clearing out to make room for Mama and Papa and cramming 3+ generations into one property
Are they talking about 4 legged or 2 legged animals?
They are trying to make believe that new infectious diseases are coming from insects migrating north, rather than the droves of undocumented, unimmunized aliens from southern countries.
Get back to me when may becomes is.
South American fire ants knew this a century ago and decided to hitch rides on cargo ships north.
Hail ants.
I’m sniffing out plans for a Tennessee Pygmy Spotted Skunk farm, to go with my Tennessee Possum Holler Seaport.
BUILD THE WALL!
I don’t care who you are, that there’s funny.
They are literally never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever going to let this drop. They seem to be ramping up their hysterical hyperbole machine and will continue to do so until new york city is once again covered in a mile of ice
Bring back DDT.
Mexicans ?
They conveniently choose to overlook the fact that people coming from a foreign land bring diseases that we are not resistant to.
But they never forget to remind us that Columbus brought diseases.
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