will there be more disease because of global warming?

Question

Malaria. Dengue Fever. Encephalitis. These names are not usually heard in emergency rooms and doctors’ offices in the United States. But if we don’t act to curb global warming, they will be. As temperatures rise, disease-carrying mosquitoes and rodents spread, infecting people in their wake. Doctors at the Harvard Medical School have linked recent U.S. outbreaks of dengue fever, malaria, hantavirus and other diseases directly to climate change.
do you believe this? what are you doing to "go green"?

Answer 1

Yes I do beleive it and the main reason is that I spent time in Africa last year visiting hospitals and research establishments, talking to surgeons, doctors, adminstrators and scientists and learning from their studies into malaria and other diseases. I study climate change and a friend of mine is a doctor / surgeon so we both had an interest in finding out more.

According to the World Health Organisation, as reported in the Washington Post and other journals, we are already seeing an additional 150,000 deaths and 5 million illnesses a year as a consequence of global warming and this figure could double within 25 years. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/16/AR2005111602197.html

As to what I'm doing to go green - whilst in Africa we planted 3 small forests, enough carbon offsetting for 100 lifetimes. On an everyday basis we're recycling 90% of our waste, cutting electricity consumption, using more energy efficient products and services, have switched to an alternative energy supplier for our electricity and are in discussion with neighbours about a shared wind turbine - we're in the country on the top of a windy hill so it's a perfect location.

Answer 2

It is believe that more disease would be found when our temperature increases. I think the greater danger is that when the temperature shift, plant, animal and humans would not be prepared for it and there would be a shock factor. Malaria is over exagerated. Malaria has beenfound in the US before, but we eradicated it by pest control. I think there is more of a concern that a different species of malaria might invade new territory, not malaria itself expanding. Dengue fever use to be a big problem in the US, particularly in New orleans. I think modern medicine has kept it out of the US. A sfor Hanta virus, migration might spread it more than anything else. California is endanger as it is, but we have a different species of the sand fly and its habit makes it less likely to transmit the disease. THe problem is there are a lot of other disease we haven't heard about and the change of weather might change how its spread.

Answer 3

Absolutely, malaria and other diseases with vectors will spread at faster rates than ever because of the warmer climate. These diseases travel through vectors that thrive better in a warm climate.

To go green, I'm trying to reduce the amount of waste I produce and trying to conserve resources. I print my documents in draft print mode because if 10,000 people did that, we'd save 20,000 ink cartridges a year. I try to buy biodegradable products because plastics basically sit around for an extremely long time in landfills. I try to spread awareness of these environmental problems. Unplugging electronic devices that aren't in use could help. I also use energy-efficent lightbulbs. Every little bit helps, really.

Answer 4

under no circumstances. there's a great propaganda gadget merchandising denial. it relatively is commonplace that some human beings get caught via it. Many are conservatives who carry ideology to an extreme. If liberals, environmentalists, or worst yet, Al Gore say something it could be incorrect. that could substitute as undisputed conservatives settle for worldwide warming as actual: "Former homestead Speaker Newt Gingrich challenged fellow conservatives Tuesday to quit resisting medical data of world warming" The Republican management is extra to blame than the deniers. that's a planned approach. "Reps. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) and Vernon Ehlers (R-Mich.), the two analyze scientists, even have been denied seats on the committee. regularly, correct understanding could be seen an earnings. as a consequence, it became right into a disqualification; if the GOP allowed Republican researchers who settle for the medical consensus to sit down down on a worldwide warming panel, it might kill the occasion’s approach of bobbing up worldwide warming seem the puppy obsession of Democrats and Hollywood lefties." do no longer blame human beings, instruct them, without insulting them in my view. prepare some self administration.

Answer 5

already is at a micro organic level ,
that is what is killing the bees.(tiny parasites)

Dengue is big in Mexico
the government sends hospital crews out to try combat it
and towns spray for mosquitos ,but this also kills the good bugs and nature gets even more off balance.

the Hospital in my town last year reported at least 9 types of parasites,with their patients (mostly children and old people ) related to warmer contaminated waters

Answer 6

In warm humid tempretures, becteria tends to thrive. Thus the possibility of contacting diseases (such as those associtated with mosquitos) is alot higher.

Answer 7

We don't know what to expect from global warming...in my opinion..i think the answer is yes. I just think that when you're dealing with something as big as our Earth, we should expect the max.

Answer 8

Maybe. But honestly, that's not the worst problem global warming will bring. See:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL052735320070407

Answer 9

skin cancer