We’ll need more vaccines in a warming world

[cui bono]

We’ll need more vaccines in a warming world
By Jeremy Schulman on 11 Feb 2015 2:20 pm


In its landmark report last year, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that global warming poses a range of health threats — especially in the developing world. Warmer temperatures and changes in rainfall will reduce crop production, leading to malnutrition. Foodborne and waterborne illnesses will become a bigger problem. And, some scientists argue, diseases like malaria will spread as the insects that carry them migrate to new areas.

So how should humanity adapt to these dangers? The IPCC report lays out a slew of public health interventions, including widespread vaccination:

The most effective measures to reduce vulnerability in the near term are programs that implement and improve basic public health measures such as provision of clean water and sanitation, secure essential healthcare including vaccination and child health services, increase capacity for disaster preparedness and response, and alleviate poverty.

There are a number of reasons that vaccines will play an important role in our efforts to adapt to a warming world. The most obvious is their ability to protect vulnerable populations from diseases that will be made worse by climate change.

A prime example is rotavirus, a vaccine-preventable disease that can cause severe diarrhea. It killed roughly 450,000 children in 2008 — mostly in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Health Organization. “There is evidence that case rates of rotavirus are correlated with warming temperatures and high rainfall,” according to Erin Lipp, an environmental health professor at the University of Georgia and a contributor to the IPCC report. This is particularly true in developing countries with poor sanitation and drinking water sources, Lipp explained in an email.


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[NYC_SKP]

1. Some of us expect that Mother Nature will have her way with us no matter what medicine we use.

[cui bono]

3. By that thinking htere's no point in doing anything.

You can take it all the way to why bother to wear shoes or have a roof over your head?

I would rather do what is possible to help.

[The2ndWheel]

2. There's no way out

programs that implement and improve basic public health measures such as provision of clean water and sanitation, secure essential healthcare including vaccination and child health services, increase capacity for disaster preparedness and response, and alleviate poverty.

Which will keep people alive and healthier, which will require more resources as they'll have more needs, which will require getting and using more resources, which will increase our environmental issues.

Of course if we don't do it, there will be a bunch of people dying.

Classic rock and hard place scenario.

[cui bono]

4. We need less population growth, that's for sure.

Once water becomes the scarce resource people/nations are fighting over it's going to get really ugly.

[NM_Birder]

5. tens of thousands of undocumented people

crossing the borders and being spread out all over the country, everybody saw it happening and nobody gave a crap. Most if not all from Latin/Central American countries with little to no vaccination history and at best mediocre health care. They arrive in the United States which had all but wiped out measles except for the odd case here and there.

Less than a year later there are measles epidemics from coast to coast. The cause couldn't possibly be the exact reason we are supposed to have borders, and need to secure who is coming in carrying who knows what.

Global Warming,......... yeah that's the ticket....global warming,........maybe another carbon tax,..... yeah carbon taxes will solve these mysterious and unforeseen " infectious anomaly"

[cui bono]

6. You really think the measles outbreak is because of undocumented immigrants?

Have you been ignoring the anti-vaxxer rage? A lot of the anti-vaxxers are well off US citizens.

Did you even read the article? Or the OP? Your last sentence doesn't make any sense to me.

[NM_Birder]

8. anti vaxxer gossip/rage and "outrage"

doesn't mean crap to me. online outrage is more of a fad than anything at this point. people seem to think if enough people repeat the same opinion enough times it causes it to become fact.Want an example ? tell me how proud you are of the 5.7% unemployment number because that's what is talked about. Now be honest with yourself and tell me if you truly believe that represents the number of americans unemployed. It's a lie used to club the other side, all the while the people clubbing with that unemployment number KNOW its bullshit, but it doesn't matter, if enough people keep repeating the lie, it becomes truthful fact.

common sense = no measles outbreaks since when ? how many years ? Most doctors haven't even seen measles in the last 15 years, many are being trained to diagnose it because they've never seen an actual meseal case.
tens of thousands of undocumented people from disease prone third world medically deficient countries arrive and oddly enough, nearly everywhere those people where relocated have measles epidemics.

I think the cause is undocumented people not being checked properly for communicable diseases before being sent to other locations, I know you read about the horrible medical conditions in the holding areas before they were moved around. They were allowed into the country and relocated before any responsible medical evaluations were done. there was plenty of "outrage" regarding how those people were being held and shipped out,...I would venture a guess people like you were the ones calling concerned people like me "racist" for wanting to slow the relocation train down.

You think the epidemic is simply caused by "anti vaxxer outrage".

[zappaman]

7. I also think it's possible that something comes out of the permafrost.

Some sort of virus that's been locked away for hundreds of thousands of yeas that our bodies have never seen...