Scientists: Global Warming May Spread "Deadly Dozen" Diseases

jerry submitted, created time 2 months 4 weeks (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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Black Death is still nearby

DanyC submitted, created time 11 months 3 weeks (www.theregister.co.uk)

"Although the number of human cases of plague is relatively low, it would be a mistake to overlook its threat to humanity, because of the disease's inherent communicability, rapid spread, rapid clinical course, and high mortality if left untreated."
Now,infected fleas may still anywhere.We should care about environment nearby, daily food and ourselves.

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How plague-causing bacteria disarm host defense

alpha submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.biologynews.net)

"Effector proteins are the bad guys that help bacterial pathogens do their job of infecting the host by crippling the body's immune system. In essence, they knock down the front door of resistance and disarm the cell's alarm system."

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Caterpillar Cells Could Prove Key to Mass-Producing Flu Vaccine

badboy submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.sciam.com)

"Baculovirus is the plague of the fall armyworm, which is itself a major pest for corn farmers. The virus infects the caterpillar's cells and hijacks them to produce the proteins it needs to thrive and spread. Scientists have appropriated this cellular machinery to produce other proteins, including hemagglutinin, the key used by the influenza virus to infiltrate human cells and make us sick."

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Mood lighting peps up spiders

humane-wolf submitted, created time 1 year 11 months (www.sciam.com)

Lighting levels don't only affect human mating behavior -- scientists in Singapore have found certain types of light can make jumping spiders attractive to the opposite sex. The researchers said that when bathed in ultraviolet light, different parts of male and female jumping spiders glowed, making them appear sexually attractive

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Scientists find potential weakness in plague germ

eudemon submitted, created time 1 year 11 months (www.sciam.com)

The germ that caused the plague epidemic that ravaged medieval Europe has a weakness that could help make a particularly dangerous form easier to treat, according to a study published on Thursday. A bacterium known as Yersinia pestis causes both bubonic plague, the dreaded Black Death spread when people are bitten by an infected flea, and pneumonic plague, spread from one person to another through coughing or sneezing.

Pneumonic plague can kill a person in three or four days after infection

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