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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 10 days ago

A warmer, humid world where ticks thrive is increasing spread of Lyme and other diseases

www.cnn.com

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A warmer, humid world where ticks thrive is increasing spread of Lyme and other diseases

www.cnn.com

silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 10 days ago
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  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    There has been a vaccine for dogs for a long time. There was one for humans too which got killed by antivaxxers. There’s another one far along in development.

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      Oh fuck antivaxxers

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        I wouldn’t recommend it, you don’t know what you might catch

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      That’s for Lyme only while there are worse diseases transmitted by ticks. At least we have vaccine for meningitis.

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    Glad they address the issues other than heat and humidity. We’ve all but crashed our ecosystems and tough fuckers like ticks, mosquitoes and flies are thriving. Diversity means balance. Upset that and some populations are going to go haywire.

    Posted this a few times: The shallow ponds at our camp in the swamp dried up two years in a row. That is not normal weather in Florida.

    That killed the dragonfly larvae and small fish. Seems things are back to normal this year, but the dragonflies won’t be back until next year at the soonest. Went out the other day and no amount of bug spray would fend the mosquitoes off, had to go home.

    https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/catastrophic-73-decline-in-the-average-size-of-global-wildlife-populations-in-just-50-years-reveals-a-system-in-peril

    And that’s only counting vertebrates. Human activity has kicked the bottom of the food chain out. Anecdotally, we used to have so many love bugs in September that the whole month was a nightmare, everybody out washing their cars. I saw a few over a total of three days last fall.

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    Climate change impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections | Biologia

    https://medium.com/l/ticks good intro

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    Can’t even get cordyceps making the jump on this boring ass timeline

  • MunkyNutts@lemmy.world
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    Is this how we curb our red meat issue and help the climate?

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