(((West Nile Virus – loves climate crisis, could become biggest mosquito-borne epidemic ever. A very mild disease which, like heat-waves, kills mostly the elderly.)))
Link: Rise in Cases of West Nile May Portend an Epidemic - New York Times.
It is impossible to predict whether the trend will continue, Dr. Petersen said, adding that it may be related to “a lot of weird weather events,” including both the heat waves in the West and unusual storm patterns in the Midwest. If people keep getting infected at the current rate, he said, “we could see the largest epidemic ever.”
The first known case of the disease in the United States occurred in New York City in 1999, and since then the virus has spread to every state.
(((No one's got a lower carbon-footprint than someone killed by a greenhouse epidemic.)))
