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Scientific American says that Malaria is caused by global warming, so it must have been very hot in Wisconsin in the 19th century.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=east-africa-malaria-rises-under-climate-change
lack of spraying……………..
Malaria was endemic in Siberia not so long ago, I guess the place was hotter in the old days 🙂
Humanity managed to get Malaria deaths in Africa down to less than 100,000 a year, but this alarmed the “Greens”, ( They hate brown people ), so they banned DDT, for no good reason.
The death rate is now a respectable 1 – 1.5 million, mainly children so that’s OK then.
Oh forgot to mention, the ban has been in place for 40 years, so 40 Million+ deaths can be placed directly at the feet of the environmental movement, they are worse than any other parasite known to man.
40 million african deaths is not enough for the Klimate Krew. They Introducing more tax payer funded starvation through their bio-“fuels” programs.
I didn’t think East Africa was heating up….
..had to look that up, and it’s not
GISS says it is, the rest of the world says it’s not.
AMS Journals Online..
Surface Temperature Variations in East Africa and Possible Causes
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2008JCLI2726.1?journalCode=clim
Malaria is on the rise in all vulnerable countries due to the misjudged ban of DDT.
According to a commenter at SciAm, the stock photo is no Anopheles, i.e. the Editors have no clue about what science.
Boy, am I glad I don’t subscribe to Scientifically-challenged American any longer…
Unscientific American is completely clueless on this – here’s a list of famous people that have died from malaria (or ague, as it was called in earlier days):
http://www.malariasite.com/malaria/history_victims.
Global malaria may continue decreasing
Russia
“…in 1922-1923, the greatest malaria epidemic of modern times in Europe…..More than 2 million cases were registered in 1922 and more than 5 million in 1923.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2537933/
So, malaria is not a tropical disease, can happen even in places with cold climates? Then we should assume that a degree of warming is not that important, if that is the case?
Try reading the Scientific American article. The story is specifically about the spread of malaria from the tropical lowlands of Kenya, up the sides of Mount Kenya. My neighbor and my landlord are from Mount Kenya and have explained its pleasant climate to me at length. The temperatures are consistently moderate year around on Mount Kenya. But as the climate warms, warmer temperatures are gradually creeping up Mount Kenya, and the disease bearing mosquitoes from the tropical jungles below are spreading with it!
In Wisconsin, all malaria-bearing mosquitoes, which are related but not identical to the ones in Africa, ahd to do was be able to bite and breed during the warm season. Southern Wisconsin is full of ideal malaria mosquito environment; what they MOST need is plenty of marshes. Therefore malaria was pandemic in Wisconsin in the 19th century.
I think it was pretty much beaten with swamp drainage and DDT.
Raw speculation about something you know nothing of.
Plasmodium sp. parasites are host and vector specific. Climate conditions which affect vector species range are also strong determinants to parasite viability.
Wisconsin has NEVER had malaria outbreaks because Wisconsin is not in either the vector OR endemic parasitic range. Any reported cases are from travelers returning from endemic areas.
https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/disease/malaria.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/distribution.html
Interestingly enough, reading the article in its entirety through Google Newspapers shows that even in 1893 they had the equivalent of today’s online ads-masquerading-as-news clickbait.
The “article” is an advertisement for Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Company of Columbus, OH. Nothing more.