{"id":401995,"date":"2019-03-30T16:42:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T15:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/climate-crisis-could-expose-half-a-billion-more-to-mosquito-borne-diseases\/"},"modified":"2019-03-30T16:42:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T15:42:28","slug":"climate-crisis-could-expose-half-a-billion-more-to-mosquito-borne-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/climate-crisis-could-expose-half-a-billion-more-to-mosquito-borne-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Crisis Could Expose Half a Billion More to Mosquito-Borne Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span>Rising global temperatures could put half a billion more people at risk for tropical <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/niosh\/topics\/outdoor\/mosquito-borne\/default.html\">mosquito-borne diseases<\/a><span> like chikungunya, dengue, yellow fever and Zika by 2050, according to a new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosntds\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pntd.0007213\">study<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While a growing body of recent research warns the<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/02\/25\/evidence-human-caused-climate-crisis-has-now-reached-gold-standard-level-certainty\">human-caused<\/a><span> <\/span>climate crisis will cause general worldwide \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/02\/12\/we-have-entered-age-environmental-breakdown-report-details-world-edge-runaway\">environmental breakdown<\/a>,\u201d a study published Thursday in the journal<span> <\/span><em>PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases<\/em><span> <\/span>focuses specifically on a related public health threat: how a hotter world will enable disease-carrying mosquitoes to reach more people.<\/p>\n<p>The study\u2019s lead author Sadie Ryan of the University of Florida\u2014joined by researchers from Georgetown University, Stanford University, and Virginia Tech\u2014examined how projected temperature rise for 2050 and 2080 could impact the global distribution of the yellow fever mosquito (<em>Aedes aegypti<\/em>) and the tiger mosquito (<em>Aedes albopictus<\/em>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high  inline-callout-container\" id=\"255792\">\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high\" id=\"truth-1113769756\">\n<aside class=\" inline-callout inline-callout--subscribe inline-callout--dark\" id=\"255395\">\n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n<h2>Uncompromised, uncompromising news<\/h2>\n<p>Get reliable, independent news and commentary delivered to your inbox every day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The team estimates that currently, about six billion people are exposed for a month or more annually to climates suitable for those mosquitoes to transmit diseases. As temperatures climb, colder regions such as parts of Canada and Northern Europe will become more hospitable to mosquitoes, at the human population\u2019s expense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlain and simple, climate change is going to kill a lot of people,\u201d coauthor Colin Carlson of Georgetown<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nexusmedianews.com\/rising-temperatures-will-help-mosquitos-infect-a-billion-more-people-1d4e3e456b15\">told<\/a><span> <\/span><em>Nexus Media News<\/em>. \u201cMosquito-borne diseases are going to be a big way that happens, especially as they spread from the tropics to temperate countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lead author Ryan<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ufl.edu\/2019\/03\/mosquito-borne-illness\/\">emphasized<\/a><span> <\/span>that public health experts should be preparing now for the outbreaks predicted to occur in new places over the next few decades. As the study explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Aedes<\/em>-borne virus expansion into regions that lack previous exposure is particularly concerning, given the potential for explosive outbreaks when arboviruses are first introduced into na\u00efve populations, like chikungunya and Zika in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/climate-crisis-could-expose-half-a-billion-more-to-mosquito-borne-diseases\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising global temperatures could put half a billion more people at risk for tropical mosquito-borne diseases like chikungunya, dengue, yellow fever and Zika by 2050, according to a new study. While a growing body of recent research warns the human-caused climate crisis will cause general worldwide \u201cenvironmental breakdown,\u201d a study published Thursday in the journal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}