risk management of lyme disease as result of climate change
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What Will Climate Change Mean for Lyme Disease? Climate change will have the following effects on Lyme disease: An acceleration of the tick's developmental cycle, a prolonged developmental cycle, increased egg production, increased population density, and a broader range of risk areas.
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Climate change affects disease spread: The need to forecast Biodiversity loss is a well-established consequence of climate change. In a number of infectious disease systems, such as Lyme disease and West Nile virus, biodiversity loss is tied to greater pathogen transmission and increased human risk.
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Natural Causes of Climate Change Orbital Changes. Milankovitch cycles over the past 1 000 000 years. Source: Global Warming Art. The Milankovitch Theory explains the 3 cyclical changes in Earth’s orbit and tilt that cause the climate fluctuations that occur over tens of thousands of years to hundreds of thousands of years. You have learned about these orbital changes in the Temperature over Time module. These fluctuations include changes in the shape (eccentricity) of Earth’s orbit every ~100,000 years, the tilt (obliquity) of Earth’s axis every ~41,000 years, and the wobbling (precession) of Earth’s axis about ~23,000 years.
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Global warming and infectious disease. Malaria, dengue, plague, and viruses causing encephalitic syndromes are among the many vector-borne diseases likely to be affected. Some models suggest that vector-borne diseases will become more common as the earth warms, although caution is needed in interpreting these predictions.Clearly, global warming will cause changes in the epidemiology of infectious diseases.mportantly, significant economic and political stresses may damage the existing public health infrastructure, leaving mankind poorly prepared for unexpected epidemics. Global warming will certainly affect the abundance and distribution of disease vectors.
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- In large part, the ubiquity of the flag can be attributed to the sustained effort of a tiny, Washington-based organization: the National League of POW/MIA Families. It's very gratifying to see that this flag is one of most visible flags in the whole world, league chairman Ann Mills Griffiths tells U.S. News.
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- 1 16 CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN HEALTH-RISK AND RESPONSES Humans have known that climaticconditions affect epidemic diseasesfrom long before the role ofinfectious agents was discovered,late in the nineteenth century.Roman aristocrats retreated to hillresorts each summer to avoidmalaria.
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- Overall, the effects of global climate change are predicted to be heavily. concentrated in poorer populations at low latitudes, where the most. important climate-sensitive health outcomes (malnutrition, diarrhoea. and malaria) are already common, and where vulnerability to climate. effects is greatest.
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- The Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2009 identified climate change as one of the greatest threats to the long-term health of the Great Barrier Reef. Climate change may affect the Reef in a number of ways, including: 1  Increased frequency of severe weather events. 2  Ocean acidification. 3  Rising sea temperature.
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Red pandas, climate change, and the fight to save forests Humans and wild animals face new challenges for survival because of climate change. More frequent and intense drought, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and warming oceans can directly harm animals, destroy the places they live, and wreak havoc on people’s livelihoods and communities.
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Climate change and health Key facts. 1  Climate change affects the social and environmental determinants of health – clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter. 2  Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress.
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- The reported incidence, which sets the trend for Lyme disease over time, is due to many changing factors that include: 1  Weather. 2  Tick abundance, habitat, and infectivity rates. 3  Deer population and habitat.  Recognition of the disease by those infected and health care 1  practitioners. Living in a wooded area.
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Urban pluvial flooding and climate change: London (UK), Rafina (Greece) and Coimbra (Portugal) Urban pluvial flood risk is expected to increase significantly in the future as a result of climate changes and demographic shifts: the former is likely to increase the magnitude and frequency of extreme storm events, the driving force of pluvial flooding, while the latter will increase exposure and hence, risk.
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- The cost and benefits of global warming will vary greatly from area to area. For moderate climate change, the balance can be difficult to assess. But the larger the change in climate, the more negative the consequences will become. Global warming will probably make life harder, not easier, for most people. This is mainly because we have already built enormous infrastructure based on the climate we now have. People in some temperate zones may benefit from milder winters, more abundant rainfall, and expanding crop production zones. But people in other areas will suffer from increased heat waves, coastal erosion, rising sea level, more erratic rainfall, and droughts.
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6 climate tipping points: How worried should we be? Here are the top six climate events scientists worry about today. 1. The Arctic sea ice melts. The melting of the Arctic summer ice is considered to be the single greatest threat, and some scientists think we’ve already passed the tipping point. As sea ice melts and the Arctic warms, dark ocean water is exposed that absorbs more sunlight, thus reinforcing the warming.
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Attribution of recent climate change The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported in 2014 that scientists were more than 95% certain that global warming is mostly being caused by human (anthropogenic) activities, mainly increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2).
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Climate Change Threatens U.S. Culinary Traditions, From Maple Syrup to Hot Sauce “Ocean acidification is a direct result of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations due to the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, cement production and other human activities,” it says.In addition to driving global climate change, increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide affect ocean chemistry, impacting marine ecosystems and compromises the health of the oceans and their ability to provide important services to the global community.
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Facts The IPCC predicts that increases in global mean temperature of less than 1.8 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (1 to 3 degrees Celsius) above 1990 levels will produce beneficial impacts in some regions and harmful ones in others. Net annual costs will increase over time as global temperatures increase.he IPCC predicts that increases in global mean temperature of less than 1.8 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (1 to 3 degrees Celsius) above 1990 levels will produce beneficial impacts in some regions and harmful ones in others. Net annual costs will increase over time as global temperatures increase.
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- Agriculture is among sectors most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change; water supply for example, will be critical to sustain agricultural production and provide the increase in food output required to sustain the world's growing population. Fluctuations in the flow of rivers are likely to increase in the twenty-first century.
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- As tropical temperature zones expand, the reach of some infectious diseases, such as malaria, will change. More intense rains and hurricanes and rising sea levels will lead to more severe flooding and potential loss of property and life. One inevitable consequence of global warming is sea-level rise.
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Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome Dangers of long-term treatment for Lyme disease. 1  De Wilde M, Speeckaert M, Callens R, Van Biesen W. Ceftriaxone-induced immune hemolytic anemia as a life-threatening complication of antibiotic treatment of ‘chronic Lyme disease’. 2  Ettestad PJ, Campbell GL, Welbel SF, et al.
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- Long-term changes in climate can directly or indirectly affect many aspects of society in potentially disruptive ways. For example, warmer average temperatures could increase air conditioning costs and affect the spread of diseases like Lyme disease, but could also improve conditions for growing some crops. More extreme variations in weather are also a threat to society.
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The role of coastal setbacks in the context of coastal erosion and climate change ► We look at the coastal setback policy of the Mediterranean Protocol on ICZM. ► Case studies in the Mediterranean and Black Seas are used to test its effectiveness. ► Major issues are related with the dynamic nature of the shoreline. ► Integrating climate variability and change is critical to identify areas at risk.
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Risk Areas Risk throughout Canada. Even though eastern Canada and Manitoba are areas where Lyme disease is higher, all Canadians are at risk for contracting Lyme. Infected ticks are found throughout Canada and areas that were once considered low-risk are quickly becoming higher risk areas as the ticks establish local populations.
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- The change in global climate, according to scientific consensus, is a result of cumulative carbon pollution over the past 200 years, or since the Industrial Revolution began. There has been an escalation of this pollution in the past 20 – 40 years due to increased population and industrial activity. The first goal is to reduce carbon emissions. If we can do this, there should be a commensurate decrease in the accelerating rate of climate change.
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- Some scientists argue that improved climate models may give a false impression that climate change is driving a spread in infectious diseases; others point to human activity and other factors as far more important determinants than climate. 6, 7, 8, 9.
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How much is climate change going to cost us? These theories are termed “temperature” and “resilience.”. If the former is true, sensitivity of GDP growth rate to climate impacts will increase with temperature. If the latter is true, sensitivity will decrease with GDP growth. Obviously, optimal mitigation policy depends heavily on how we answer this question.