From:Environmental Health
Posted online: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 5:50:36 PM
Blood Meant for Transfusions Can Get Contaminated Due to Global Warming
Increasing temperatures can contaminate blood meant for transfusions, say researchers.
According to a new report by West Australian researchers, global warming will increase the prevalence of viruses, like dengue and Ross River, already circulating in the northern regions of the country.
The heat could potentially increase the range of organisms that can transmit the viruses and make them more infectious more quickly by accelerating life cycles, said Professor Robert Dunstan, a specialist in emerging infectious diseases at Curtin University in Perth.
“These condition are expected to lead to higher levels of virus activity and greater exposure of humans to the viruses,” News.com.au quoted Prof Dunstan, as saying.
He warned that there was potential for blood transfusion to act as an “efficient vehicle” for transmitting these viruses.
The review published in the latest Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health confirms Australia’s blood supply is among the safest in the world for currently screened viral pathogens like HIV and hepatitis.
“However, Australia has a number of other viral pathogens with the potential to threaten the safety of the blood supply such as the Ross River, Barmah Forrest, Kunjin, Japanese Encephalitis, Murray Valley Encephalitis and dengue viruses,” Prof Dunstan said.
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Is it any wonder that the general public just isn’t buying it anymore?
Global Warming Derangement Syndrome, not global warming, is the real problem.
Actually it makes sense. If the warmist agenda is implemented, there will be no fossil fuel for electricity, no refrigeration, and with the rising ambient temperatures there will be more contamination in the blood supply – and everywhere else -.
Dan (10:34:11) :
“Is it any wonder that the general public just isn’t buying it anymore?”
All the Blogs and other literature I read has convinced me that we may be winning the battle against the GW idiocy, but I’d like to see some measure of that. Has anyone seen any polls on the subject?
What these desperate souls will do for funding and attention. Did their fathers ever give them a hug?
Like a toddler that has just learned the word Fu**.
I’ll say “Global warming (TM)” to get attention since the rest of my research isn’t getting me any.
Too bad this hysteria didn’t start in the 90’s, he could have squalled “Global Warming causes AIDS”.
We need to put out similar stories about the risk of global cooling, not that flimsy though, showing the true risks of global cooling, why we don’t want another Maunder’s minimum
What I’m afraid of is that all this increased CO2 will expand the atmosphere so much that it will reach the Moon.
Atmospheric drag would then bring the Moon crashing down to Earth which would then melt the Arctic icecap by 2020 (or at least cause an ice shelf to break off).
was going to blog this myself — speedy gonzales strikes again.
Anthony:
I absolutely love your site. Please keep up the good work.
The following links from The Onion are so close to the truth that it’s scary:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/53194
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/fall_canceled_after_3_billion
Now I know why people in the tropics never get blood transfusions: too dangerous.
Bill Illis has got me worried. His projection seems all too plausible.
Stottie has some interesting remarks on cognitive dissonance:
http://web.mac.com/sinfonia1/Global_Warming_Politics/A_Hot_Topic_Blog/A_Hot_Topic_Blog.html
Oh the humanity!!
Inverse correlation: AGW hysteria = Public skepticism
I really like global warming as a slightly warmer planet is more hospitable to most living things. I am also an avid gardener and so into plants a lot. And according to FACE in an experiment, trees increase their biomass with increased C02 and seem to be more resistant to extreme weather damage. More food, less starvation. A Win-Win for all. But, admittedly, and often emotionally, I hope for a colder climactic period so that the AGW hysterics will be roundly discredited as these people are just plain nuts — as exhibited in all of the claims of what AGW will bring.
Wow, Global Warming is the miracle phenomenon. Is there anything it can’t do?
What about the fact that four times as many die from the cold as from the heat?
Wouldn’t a cold snap threaten the blood supply even worse?
I was in the hospital a few years ago and the problem for me was that my blood if it cooled at all would thicken to the point that they could not perform the tests. They had to keep it in an incubator all the way to the lab to run the tests.
I guess I better pray for global warming.
Bill Derryberry
PS this is a condition called a cold agglutin.
Wow, Global Warming is the miracle phenomenon. Is there anything it can’t do?
Yes, AGW is the new Wom Pom of the far left.
For researchers they surely don’t research the literature much… it has been shown that we are not heating up, we are cooling down! So, by extrapolation, a global cooling will make the blood transfusions much safer.
But it is known also that when it is colder, our red blood cell count goes up… our blood is thicker in winter… so they won’t need as much blood for one person for transfusion. See, there is always a good thing coming up of all this.
I give up. I am a raging, ultra-conservative, right wing, religious evangelical, Bible thumping, government hating, private school intelligent design equal opportunitistic, redneck republican. A liberal be against AGW? There is no such thing.
Anthony and Jeez:
No blood for oil.
The newest green slogan:
No blood for food.
And now, simply:
No blood.
There must be a smarter way. To say: The quality of blood is not properly controlled.
$$$
Global warming causes everything and now the blood supply is threatened; steps must be taken.
$$$
“The heat could potentially increase the range of organisms that can transmit the viruses…” and “He warned that there was potential for blood transfusion to act as an ‘efficient vehicle’ for transmitting these viruses.”
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This is the age of unscientific science – might be, could be, has the potential for, future dangers in unforeseen circumstances, etc.
Of course they should always be vigilant with such a critical substance as blood, but hitching such concerns to the money train of AGW is disgraceful. It is through such reckless statements that the reputation of all the sciences will be seriously damaged amongst the taxpaying public. What will happen when sneered at common folk finally have enough of such conduct and demand a cut back in spending? Real problems that need the attention of science will suffer because all science will be viewed with suspicion. And what will happen to science when the fuel ($$$) for the money train dries up?
I give up. I am a raging, ultra-conservative, right wing, religious evangelical, Bible thumping, government hating, private school intelligent design equal opportunitistic, redneck republican.
We know’d it all along, Pam. But, you fergot to say gun-totin’. Now, get out thar an’ tear up them woods with yer ATV. Yee-haw!
“I am a raging, ultra-conservative, right wing, religious evangelical, Bible thumping, government hating, private school intelligent design equal opportunitistic, redneck republican.” Pam
Except for being a republican, you sound like my type.
This reminds of when I worked for a University back in the mid nineties when the internet was expanding into the general populace. One of the Professors said to me:
I guess this decades magic phrase for funding is “global warming”.
I wonder what the next decades will be?