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Disease was never a problem before CO2 hit 350 ppm.
WASHINGTON — One of the most worrisome national security threats of climate change is the spread of disease, among both people and animals, U.S. intelligence and health officials say.
But more than a decade after such concerns were first raised by U.S. intelligence agencies, significant gaps remain in the health surveillance and response network — not just in developing nations, but in the United States as well, according to those officials and a review of federal documents and reports.
And those gaps, they say, undermine the ability of the U.S. and world health officials to respond to disease outbreaks before they become national security threats.
“We’re way behind the ball on this,” said Josh Michaud, who has worked at the Defense Department’s National Center for Medical Intelligence and its Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System. “It’s a collective action problem.”
Michaud said monitoring currently was done largely through publicly available medical information and mathematical modeling, but that’s hardly enough to spot sudden disease trends quickly.
U.S. intelligence officials list the spread of disease as one of their top four climate change-related security concerns, along with food and water scarcity and the impact of extreme weather on transportation and communications systems. Outbreaks of disease can destabilize foreign countries, especially developing nations, overtax the U.S. military and undermine social cohesion and the economy at home.
smallpox was never a problem before CO2 hit 350 ppm and turned it into biggerpox
PhDs PhDs everywhere, not a single brain amongst them.
Ouch Baa
Piled Higher and Deeper!!!!
First they get BS and we all know what that stands for!
Andy Griffith!!
lol, yeh disease I tell you! Coming to a country near you! Happens every time it gets 1/2 a degree warmer and sea levels rise a centimeter. lol, and water scarcity! Once it evaporates, its gone forever! Gone to that great non-raining cloud in the sky!
It’s like debating a 5 year old. How many times are they going to run with the malaria meme? Its been thoroughly debunked. Well, not by climate scientists, it was only doctors, biologists and infectious disease experts, so the probably don’t understand this stuff very well.
“U.S. intelligence”
*giggle like a little schoolgirl*
… mathematical modeling, but that’s hardly enough to spot sudden disease trends quickly.
Is this guy a denier ’cause he does not believe in mathematical models?
With their models they should know where it is going before it even starts! They really need to talk to the GAV to learn about proper modeling
Infectious diseases are far more likely to become a problem due to the success of prevention. Our generation, and younger generations post the baby boomers have never seen significant polio, small pox, TB, significant death from infections, pneumonia among an otherwise healthy population. Thus we/they have lost the fear and are getting slacker on immunization. In addition, we have antibiotic resistant strains everywhere in our hospitals.
Our parents generation remember the iron lungs, etc. They ensured and blessed the advent of immunization.
Oh. So this is why the Summer is known as “Cold and Flu Season” errmmm……..