Scientists: Global Warming May Spread "Deadly Dozen" Diseases

jerry submitted, created time 1 month 1 week (www.foxnews.com)

Bird flu is just one of eleven diseases that may worsen with global warming, scientists are warning. Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society have nicknamed twelve diseases the “deadly dozen” and say they are spreading across the globe and becoming dangerous to human an animal populations.

The other eleven diseases include babesiosis, cholera, ebola, lyme disease, plague, red tides, rift valley fever, sleeping sickness, tuberculosis, and yellow fever. Intestinal and external parasites are counted as one problem.

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A New View of Why Cholera Won't Go Away

jerry submitted, created time 3 months 4 days (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)

Cholera first infected humans in the early 19th century in Bengal, a region that straddles what is now the border between Bangladesh and India, and the bacterial disease still sweeps through the area regularly. After sifting through historical records of cholera deaths in Bengal, a team of scientists in the United States and Europe proposes a new explanation for these repeated outbreaks, suggesting that immunity to cholera wanes more rapidly than thought and that many more people than believed become infected without exhibiting symptoms

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Climatic variations influence the emergence of cholera in Africa

james submitted, created time 1 year 2 months (www.eurekalert.org)

In studies aiming to understand better the emergence and persistence of cholera in Africa, IRD and CNRS researchers showed the strong correlation that exists between outbreaks and the different parameters linked to climate changes in West Africa.

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Children suffer in east Sudan cholera outbreak

diefish submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (www.reutershealth.com)

Mohammed, attended by his grandmother, is one of 763 victims of a cholera outbreak spread by devastating floods in east Sudan over the past two months. At least 53 people have died.Two-year old Muwada Suleiman Mohammed lies unconscious on a metal cot, his trousers soaked with watery diarrhoea that drips through to a pan below.

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Attention: flood-related cholera kills 49 in east Sudan

007RA submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (www.reutershealth.com)

A World Health Organisation (WHO) official said on Tuesday. A cholera outbreak in eastern Sudan, which has spread due to devastating floods across the region, has killed 49 people and affected some 710 others.

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