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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Yellow fever in Paraguayans

Sue Wu submitted, created time 10 months 2 weeks (www.reuters.com)

Thousands of Paraguayans blocked highways and banged on the doors of health centers on Tuesday, demanding vaccines after four people died in the first outbreak of yellow fever in 30 years in this South American nation.

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Genome of yellow fever/dengue fever mosquito sequenced

Dolly submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.eurekalert.org)

Developing new strategies to prevent and control yellow fever and dengue fever has become more possible with the completion of the first draft of the genome sequence of Aedes aegypti mosquito by scientists led by Vishvanath Nene at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and David Severson at the University of Notre Dame. The genome is the complete set of genetic material including genes and other segments of DNA in an organism.

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