{"id":11357,"date":"2021-02-09t22:42:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-09t22:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/warming-trend-may-intensify-infectious-diseases-scientists-say\/"},"modified":"2023-03-21t21:09:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21t21:09:48","slug":"warming-infectious-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/warming-infectious-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"warming trend may intensify infectious diseases, scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"
by ester wells<\/strong><\/p>\n global warming may make infectious diseases such as covid-19 more widespread, warn health and climate experts. they say increasing temperatures are changing disease progression and interaction among people in ways that make it hard to predict and prepare for future public health crises.<\/p>\n with 2020 tied with 2016 for the warmest year<\/a> on record and covid-19 topping 400,000 deaths<\/a> in the u.s., climate change and public health are both at crisis points and inextricably linked. nasa scientists report that rising temperatures are part of the long-term trend of global warming, resulting in<\/a> more droughts and heat waves, more intense and frequent hurricanes, and increased flooding and infrastructure damage.<\/p>\n \u201call of those things are being affected by the changes in climate, so the net effect of those is quite hard to predict ahead of time,\u201d said gavin schmidt, director of nasa\u2019s goddard institute for space studies, in a press webinar on 2020 temperature rise.<\/p>\n the warming climate is also affecting disease progression. schmidt said diseases carried by hosts that are sensitive to temperature \u2014 mosquitoes, parasites or other organisms such as bats \u2014 will shift, making people more vulnerable to unknown diseases in the future.<\/p>\n these diseases may be spread more rapidly as people congregate in warmer weather. but colder weather is posing challenges as well. in the case of covid-19, the winter season has made it likelier that people congregate indoors, where the virus is more easily transmitted to others.<\/p>\n \u201ccoronaviruses are spread person to person, so the way that climate change is going to affect the spread of infectious diseases such as the covid-19 virus is really how it changes the way people interact,\u201d said dr. robert horsburgh, professor of epidemiology at boston university and founding steering committee chairman of the cdc\u2019s tuberculosis epidemiologic studies 2022年世界杯亚洲预选赛结果
.<\/a><\/p>\n horsburgh said deforestation and habitat destruction, accelerated by climate change, may expose more people to zoonotic diseases (those that pass from animals or insects to humans). human expansion into natural areas increases interaction between people and pathogen-carrying animals.<\/p>\n at the same time, biodiversity loss poses challenges for antibiotic development to protect against new diseases. the world wildlife fund\u2019s 2020 living planet report<\/a> found a nearly 70% decline in the population sizes of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish between 1970 and 2016. one in five plants are now threatened with extinction.<\/p>\n \u201cwe don\u2019t know what we\u2019ve missed,\u201d he said. \u201cmany of our effective biologicals come from plant sources \u2026 so there\u2019s certainly a theoretical possibility that by changing the environment, we will lose some possible antibiotics in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n