Ticks, Mosquitos, and How Climate Change Could Increase Disease
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- We’re back again with another episode on climate change and human health. The effects of a warming planet on our wellbeing are multifaceted, and there’s a lot to address in these complex interactions. One of those things is an increase in disease
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Yup. It's happened here in Eastern Canada. When I was growing up running around in the woods all day I saw maybe one or two ticks during my entire childhood. Now I see 5-6 a year IN MY YARD ALONE, without going in the woods at all. It's gone totally crazy. Hopefully I don't get Lyme disease.
That's not from "climate change" it's from the ability to travel.
A couple years ago I got rocky mountain spotted fever out of nowhere, in Texas. It was horrible! It is a tick-transmitted disease.
It is very hard to diagnose and relatively rare. If you suddenly get an non-ending fever, you have body pain, and your liver profile through a blood test looks messed up, you got RMSF! I hope this info helps someone else.
Well that sucks.
For real
I see what you did there.
my dad, two brothers and myself all got lyme with in six weeks of each other this summer.
If only there were a vaccine for it.
Oh. Right. 🤦🏽♂️🤬
My sympathies for your family. It's ridiculous that they got infected with something preventable, because people that weren't them wanted to have a panic attack about how best to prevent it.
I hope it's relatively moderate in its effects on them.
@@Jay-ho9io, thankfully there's one in phase 3 now and a PrEP monoclonal antibody in clinical trials now.
@@emma70707 that I did not know about! Thanks.
It's off immense frustration that there's already a valid one but only my dog can get it, not me. It's a real concern with camping and hiking here.
I have 4 co-workers with Alpha-gal. That stuff is scary
Forced (mostly) vegetarianism is not the worst thing to happen, as much of a bummer as I'm sure it is. (Certainly there are lots options out there these days--much better than a couple decades ago!) And there's a potential cure on the horizon, right? Better than Lyme disease, at least, which is often a major lifetime disability.
Unfortunately people are just as misinformed about vector control as they are about vaccinations. The fact that caffeine is used as a pesticide is completely lost on people who safely guzzle gallons of coffee and want to ban all pesticides on the belief that if something is bad for bugs or plants it must be bad for them. Also the wholesale slaughter of wildlife in the past was not just for the sake of bloodlust as some groups claim. With rabies, the plague and numerous other diseases throughout history we have figured out that if wild animal populations are kept in check less people get sick from the diseases they carry. No we should not go back to dousing the whole world in DDT. We have better and safer options now that the the risks of are a lot lower and proper application lowers them more. Looking back at history you can pick any point on the timeline and say that what we were doing was terrible based on what we know today, but as long as we keep committed to learning and improving we can do better in the future. If we let people who refuse blood transfusions because the donor may have been vaccinated, or people who would rather feed wild urban rats than kill them make policy decisions, we are not learning and improving.
I for one look forward to Leishmaniasis ravaging the warmer parts of Murica.
Can you do a video on the relationship (or lack thereof) between pregnancy and accelerated aging?
Government environmentalists on a Federal, State and Local level have worked very hard to develop new and restore old wetlands. All wetlands are the breeding grounds for mosquitos. Don't expect mosquito populations or mosquito borne disease to decrease in the future.
Especially when a certain billionaire is releasing mosquitos in the US!
They said today that researchers were able to “successfully vaccinate” humans with GM mosquitoes and are planning to release them...
disease will be the least of our concern ... is
This is all untrue.
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Can you do an episode of the positive health effects from climate change? Can you talk about global total deaths as a result of/significantly exacerbated by cold temperatures and how this is much greater than deaths resulting from heat? Can you mention how increased CO2 would likely increase plant growth and help feed millions of more people around the world particularly those living in the developing world?
CO2 is very weak in such small quantities. I read that deniers write 0.04% to show just how smart they are about small numbers. But wait, it's so very powerful it greens the Earth, doncha know?? Wow, such logic.
The positive result of science is that we get to know who the deniers are.
1. It's a net negative.
2. That's not a thing.
3. This is also not a thing.
While you're not particularly intelligent person, a quick glance over your comments shows that you are intentionally spreading lies. And you know you're doing it.
Heart disease and cancer kill so many good people.
At least with you there's the solace of knowing it gets one who has it coming.
non of that is true so why would he
I've seen the co2 bit thoroughly debunked - it doesn't make a significant difference, and the problems with water shortage and heat would make things much harder
@@emmarainbow9557 funny cuz you know I've yet to read a published scientific paper stating otherwise
This is the real issue. Mosquitos. Not Covid. But we all wasted 2-3 years of time on a nothing issue like Covid
I should care about this. But after reading comments in other climate change pieces, I know we are doomed. So many people who are more experts than the experts because the weather is ok in their backyard 😂
"... a shift in population from rural to urban areas. This introduces a lot of concerns when it comes to infectious disease." - I think we all know the "only possible answer" that will eventually be implemented: forbid people to move, kill/imprison those who dare to do so, unless, of course, they are wealthy enough.
So the same thing we've been doing since 2000?
There's excellent help available for paranoid schizophrenia nowadays.
Lay off the meth.
so you want open borders?
@@phukrnd840 Borders are already open for capital and the ghouls who control that capital.
@@phukrnd840 Why would I want that? I want people to have the freedom to move within a country. But one may pretty much guarantee that freedom will be destroyed as a solution to the problem I quoted or a similar problem. The COVID-19 restrictions were only a test drive of what is coming.
temperature going up therefore we need communism.
Thank you for the tick warning. When God made our planet he knew how long it would be good for taking into consideration our need for wood, coal ect. Our planet was expected to get warmer. This has enabled us to go further from the equator as our population increases. Too much is blamed on humans. We are to blame for how we use or waste earths resorces. For example the changes in Ladakh went quickly from sustainable to like the rest of us. We should be wise as a priority not blamed for our ancesters lack of foresight. Creature's that warmer weather brings are to be expected. People in warmer countries will have their methods of tick removal. Perhaps a twig with a split in it and some local medicinal herbs/ spices to draw out infection and strengthen the immune system. Know that God loves us all ❤️
you people are some of the most immoral people on earth... your beliefs make you evil
Yeah, this global boiling thing sure is scary. I hope government locks people in their houses until the planet is healthy. This would be good for everyone.
Fake polarising comment detected.
Good. Then the government wont need to ban drag queens, and burn books.
@@therabbithat Whats fake about it?
Same old dance. Blame everything on climate change but yet fail to articulate how it could be reversed. Why concern yourselves with that which can't be changed via human effort?
What is it that you think you clicked on? A channel discussing geo-engineering efforts to modify the weather? This is a healthcare channel. He didn't discuss cornbread, pool cues or the proper inflation pressure of your tires either. Get a life.
there is no way to stop it.. its too late
We can slow it down but we're definitely in the adaptation stage; it's not reversible. Also, why you would ask a medical doctor for climate advice is beyond me... That doesn't show particularly good judgement on your sources, which is probably why you're so ill-informed. :/