A Nasty Tropical Skin Disease Is Now Endemic in the U.S.
scientificamerican.com
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Almost immediately, I developed "eczema" like skin problems all over my body ... back, chest, arms, legs, especially the legs. I still have two patches, after 3 years, that always itch.
We have not gotten to the bottom of it yet (like you said, GPs blame eczema). I currently manage it with immune suppressing medications.
I wonder if somehow I "caught it" from something emitted from the vacuum exhaust.
I have trouble once every few years and the steroid cream always clears it up rather quickly.
This quote is directly from the article:
“ One factor driving the disease’s northward creep may be climate change. “It’s increasing the likelihood sand flies can move further north,” Molyneux says. “They thrive in warm conditions.” Climate modeling suggests this trend will continue.”
https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journa...
The problem with the carbon energy sources always was that they are" free" aka without gestation cost. But now that changes. Drone warfare makes long distance infra (pipes and ships) unmaintain and unprotectable. Solar will take its place. Oil is finished.
So now great prophet, riddle me this. Who to feed to the angry mob in the rust belts of the world? For he died for our sins, a insufferable grumpy grandpa, contributing little to a peaceful transfer into a new state.
PS: Other countries had the eczema forever, before it traveled northward. Poor people problems I guess?
May have caught it locally? I mean, what are the other options, that they were kidnapped while unconscious and caught it while traveling in a different dimension?
person-to-person transmission. there's cases of Leishmaniasis spreading through sexual contact, transfusion or contaminated materials.
But thanks, that does actually answer my question!
> One factor driving the disease’s northward creep may be climate change... Climate modeling suggests this trend will continue.
Either their circulation models include an epidemiology module, or they are suggesting the (extraordinary and worthy of separate publication) finding that climate change may continue to occur in the future...?
What is extraordinary about that? The predictions obviously have large error bars, but almost all of them predicts that yes the climate will continue to change in the future.
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* this disease is born by insects
* the insects don't live in places that get too cold for them
* we witness the insects spreading into places that used to be too cold for them as the average temperature changes.
I don't see how "if the models are right and it gets warmer then the facts above will continue to apply in those areas" is somehow shocking or even dubious.
Over the summer we saw new cases of malaria contracted in the US too, for the same reasons: it got warm enough in parts of the south to support the right type of mosquito.
In the first case, climate models don't usually do that. You couple them to biological models that predict habitat expansion or contraction. (I think this is probably what the authors meant.) In the second case, well, it's not exactly an extraordinary finding, which would make it absurd to put in the article except in the spirit of Carthago delenda est.
Being involved in climate discourse does not have to be a humourless exercise.
P.S. non-anthropogenic biology does play a part in climate models (and the climate!), but over a much, much longer timescale. Think chalk cliffs and the Great Oxygenation Event.