{"id":3075,"date":"2008-10-07T18:51:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T18:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2008-10-07T18:51:48","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T18:51:48","slug":"global-warming-could-quicken-the-spread-of-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/global-warming-could-quicken-the-spread-of-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming Could Quicken the Spread of Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Global Warming is not just about melting ice caps and rising temperatures.\u00a0 Scientists continue to discover new ways in which the “butterfly effect” of global warming could transform life on Earth as we know it.\u00a0 The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) <\/a>released a report on October 7th, naming 12 deadly human-wildlife diseases that could spread into new regions as a result of climate change.<\/p>\n The report, entitled The Deadly Dozen: Wildlife Diseases in the Age of Climate Change<\/em>, was released at the IUCN Conservation Congress<\/a> being held this week in Barcelona, Spain.\u00a0 The report illustrates examples of how certain disease could spread as a result of rising temperatures and precipitation levels.<\/p>\n “We’ve seen Lyme disease<\/a> work its way up from the US into Canada, and West Nile fever<\/a> as well,” said William Karesh,<\/a> director of WCS’s global health programs.\u00a0 “Basically what you have now are fewer frozen nights in this region, and that allows the ticks and mosquitoes that carry these diseases to survive further north.”<\/p>\n The \u201cDeadly Dozen\u201d list\u2014including such diseases as avian influenza, Ebola, cholera, and tuberculosis\u2014is by no means a complete analysis of all infectious diseases that threaten humans and animals.<\/p>\n