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One of the indirect health impacts of climate change is the emergence and re-emergence of certain climate sensitive infectious diseases. According to the IPCC AR4 and meteorological observation data in China, the regional distribution of the temperature changes shows Northern China has experienced the...
And it’s not as if the pandemic is the first time this has appeared. It’s been going on for years, potentially several decades, in terms of climate change, cherry-picking one or two contrary research studies saying it doesn’t exist while ignoring or discrediting literally tens of th...
if the consequences and legal authority of such a decision were considered, what was being done to safeguard the data sets that were removed, and when access to them would return. The letter asks for answers by Feb. 7 and also requests that ...
whether you’re indoors or outdoors. But there are those people who don’t want to take that bit of a risk, and there’s nothing wrong with that and they shouldn’t be criticized,” Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said at a press con...
The other serious game, known as “Solve the Outbreak” (StO) was created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with the objective of teaching players about infectious diseases, outbreaks, and how epidemiologists use their knowledge to save lives [19]. In this online game,...
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Experts say environmental factors may be fueling the spread of ticks and Lyme disease. "It's not entirely clear, but most experts agree climate change plays a role," Phillips said. "With the change in the temperature over the last, probably, 30 to 40 years, it has increased the rate of...
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Though many Americans are eager to return to normal after a year of living through the Covid-19 pandemic, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday reminded Americans that “we’re not quite there yet.” ...