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orthoclad

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8. Novel pathogens are invasive species

Reply to hatrack (Reply #7)

Tue Mar 21, 2023, 07:02 PM

Mar 2023

Just like the diseases and insects that are destroying trees, and the invasive plants that are destroying whole biomes, and the pythons in Florida.
Global heating is throwing whole ecosystems out of balance, and invasive disease is one category of invasive species: it throws our internal ecosystem off.
Brain-eating amoebae, flesh-eating bacteria, mosquito and other insect vectored diseases are moving away from the tropics as temperate zones heat.

Sickness of ecosystems and people is one of the consequences of mining petrochemicals.

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More good climate news: fungus [View all] orthoclad Mar 2023 OP

The article seems to be from July 2019, has there been a further spread Hugh_Lebowski Mar 2023 #1

Yes orthoclad Mar 2023 #2

Thank you Delphinus Mar 2023 #3

this is going to be just like staph Aureus sue4e3 Mar 2023 #4

One more of many bad things orthoclad Mar 2023 #5

K&R. nt sl8 Mar 2023 #6

Can't help wondering if this becomes like cordyceps for people as things get hotter . . . hatrack Mar 2023 #7

Novel pathogens are invasive species orthoclad Mar 2023 #8