Deadly fungal infection emerges due to climate change

[Bek]

Scientists believe that a new superbug is spreading around the world thanks to climate change. It does not respond to drug treatments and kills "6 out of 10". 

 

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/07/23/deadly-fungal-infection-first-emerge-global-warming-scientists/amp/

[ChocoBro]

I expect climate change has nothing to do with it, but that this is just another typical response to man's overuse of antibiotics, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides etc.

[Miss Bea]

If Jehovah didn’t step in, we’d all be goners.

[Bek]

16 hours ago, ChocoBro said:

I expect climate change has nothing to do with it, but that this is just another typical response to man's overuse of antibiotics, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides etc.

You might be right. Also fungi usually tend to grow faster at warmer temperatures. For example, you leave out bread or some kind of food, it will spoil quickly. 

[ChocoBro]

7 hours ago, Hun said:

You might be right. Also fungi usually tend to grow faster at warmer temperatures. For example, you leave out bread or some kind of food, it will spoil quickly. 

This is true, but there are warmer temperatures right now in some countries. So simply "climate change" can't be the full explanation. There must be several contributing factors if this is true.

[hatcheckgirl]

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190612-the-poisons-released-by-melting-arctic-ice

 

The reality of what diseases climate change is bringing can be seen by what is being released by the melting ice and permafrost. It’s like a perfect storm, this article states.

 

Permafrost is almost the perfect storm – you have a lot of mercury in permafrost, it is released into wetland systems, those are the right environment for organisms to take them up, and then [it] heads up the food web. That’s a concern for wildlife, people, and the commercial fishing industry.”

 

And not just toxic chemicals and green house gases are being release due to the melt.

 

But methane and CO2 are not the only things being released from the once frozen ground. In the summer of 2016, a group of nomadic reindeer herders began falling sick from a mysterious illness. Rumours began circling of the “Siberian plague”, last seen in the region in 1941. When a young boy and 2,500 reindeer died, the disease was identified: anthrax.