Global warming can threaten more than just our ecology. It can threaten our health, as climate change allows infectious disease to emerge in different parts of the world.
On December 23, 2007, The New York Times published a story on the emergence of the Chikungunya virus in Italy:
As Earth Warms Up, Tropical Virus Moves to Italy
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/world/europe/23virus.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=chikungunya+virus&oref=slogin
But back in November, 2007, I published a similar story for Internal Medicine World Report:
Climate Change Culprit in Emerging Infections
http://www.imwr.com/issues/articles/2007-11_02.asp
For the latest on health and global warming, always read mygreenerlife.blogspot.com first.
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In addition to global warming, global mobility leads to bringing diseases from one part of the world to another, such as Ebola & Margrave's virus. These are very dangerous diseases that we do not seem to understand well and have no effective treatments except quarantine.
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