(Researchers also note that poorer families are at higher risk of animal bites.)
Dec. 12, 2018 / 3:37 PM EST
By Shamard Charles, M.D.
Stanford researchers warn that the number of animal bites is likely to rise amid climate change and developmental pressures.
Rising temperatures are already exposing people in temperate climates to more mosquitoes and ticks, and developmental sprawl is reducing the amount of land available exclusively to animals.
“As available habitat for these animals increasingly overlaps with human development and recreational activities,” the researchers wrote in a BMJ news release, “it is expected encounters with animals may increase and could result in increased animal-related injuries.”
Dr. Joseph Forrester, the lead researcher of a study published Tuesday in the online BMJ journal Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open, added, “We’ve already seen that with tick populations and mosquito populations. We would anticipate over time more people in traditionally temperate climates will be exposed.”
If this prediction holds, it will add to the enormous health care costs that already exist. Currently, U.S. health care costs for animal-related injuries exceed $1 billion every year, according to the study.
This estimate excludes doctors’ fees, outpatient clinic charges, lost productivity and the costs of rehabilitation, so the actual costs may be higher.
The study also found that the patients most likely to be injured by bites from venomous snakes, spiders and insects were in the lowest 25 percent of household income for their ZIP code.
This poses a major public health problem in children and adults.
Animal bites are most common among people living in rural, resource-poor settings, who subsist on low-cost, non-mechanical farming and other field occupations. Adult victims are often the wage earners or care providers of the family unit, and child victims can suffer lifelong disabilities, intensifying demands on families and communities.
HT/DB
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Global warming is the monster of big lies, so they’ll repeat it again and again and again until people begin to believe it or just give in! And since the global warming fraud is the entire foundation of the globalist world government They WIll Not Stop until something or someone finally undeniably exposes the fraud.
“Rising temperatures are already exposing people in temperate climates to more mosquitoes and ticks”
Actually it’s the other way around. There are no places in the world that are worse for mosquitos than the boreal forests and moorlands. The same for ticks, much worse in the north than the south. And the worst malaria epidemic ever was in Siberia.
Chiggers only occur down south though.
As far as ticks getting worse if the weather gets hotter, we had a heatwave and drought in the central U.S. in about 2010 that was one of the hottest summers I have ever expienced, and I would go walking through the woods around my house, a prime location for ticks in summer, and I spent several weeks walking the woods and watering the trees (the reason I was walking in the woods) and never got one tick on me.
I found out later that high temperatures like that (100F+ for weeks on end) devastate the tick population.
Softening folks up for an assault of fee, cost and price increases.
Oldest trick in the book
I know what, suggest folks take up tobacco smoking.
Tangent:
Remember Doc? As you suggested people do to help with their asthma 80 & 90 years ago?
That worked well, AND via Eisenhower’s heart-attack, resulted in The Most Nutritious Food known to Man, Women and Children (tiny babies especially) becoming regarded as a Deadly Poison. Saturated fat.
Then the real actual plant-derived and actual poison replaced it. Glucose sugar
End tangent
Not least as any active (and retired) modern day smoker knows, and doctors *would* know if they weren’t all decamped to Planet Moneygrub, nicotine is an epic insect repellent and poison.
Hence why the tobacco plant invented it. Not a difficult concept unless you’re drunk or chronically depressed.
Oh wait, nicotine is used in insecticides in modern farming. Systemic though.
Bingo, light comes on!
Get these ‘poor’ farmers to drink the nicotine pesticide, less cancer risk than smoking it.
That’ll surely protect them from insect bites.
Wait some more. Farmers in India are doing that already.
Wonder how its working out for them?
Penny drops. Cannabis.
Is *that* why it is being legalised?
Mixed with baccy and smoked that must be one truly epic insect repellent.
Yes. Good result.
Doctors *really* do care about their patients, they’re not just saying it as a ruse to increase the (financial) care every one else has to lavish upon them.
But accidents *will* happen and that eventuality is already covered – twice over.
If the recommended alcohol don’t numb the pain, One Phat Handful of Opium surely will.
Thrice over: I forgot about ‘lawyers’
Oh what a wonderful world….
straight normal nicotine for pest control would be fine
the neonics are a synthetic bastardised variant.
and funny thing re tobacco plants?
i grew some and the damned earwigs lived in the cured leaves and thrived!
so nat tobacco mightnt be the go to option
i prefer derris dust(rotenone)
short life and not overly nasty, yet effective in sparing use
So, climate change makes people so stupid they can’t properly handle pets or use pesticides to eliminate biting/stinging insects? Got it! It clearly makes some people stupid, or they simply were born stupid in order to believe humans are causing climate to change.
Based on actual experience, I get bit by mosquitoes more frequently when the sun starts to, or is already gone and the temperature has dropped a few degrees compared to earlier in the day. I swear they also prefer my blood when it has some percentage of beer or wine in it as well.
It is my undestanding that mosquitoes are attracted to the CO2 given off by humans. Perhaps a larger increase of CO2 in the atmosphere will better hide us.
That has been my experience on 3 continents. Do get some mosquito activity through day, it really picks up as the day winds down and sweat really tends to bring them on. Well, Central America is not actually a continent, so, 2 continents and a region. And between south Louisiana and Alaska, hands down, Alaska. They be multi engine model up there!
I thought they just finished proving that rising temperatures were going to kill off all the animals?
“…….likely to rise amid climate change and ……..”
So, they really don’t know.
“So, they really don’t know.”
Exactly!
But they want all of us to think they do.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the stupidity of these never ending claims …”likely caused by climate change”.
The good news is the credibility of the movement goes down with every single failed, and/ or stupid claim.
You don’t need to be a scientist to smell B.S. in these desperate and ridiculous statements. I don’t know how far below zero their credibility can go, but they keep trying.
This seems appropriate:
https://youtu.be/BmdHYI72L2s
I would say 4 G and increased number of vaccines pets get play a bigger role. Wait till 5 G rolls out, you any seen nothing like it yet except on walking dead or kings “the cell”.
Doctors cite climate change for rise in animal bites, U.S. health care costs
1 week ago December 16, 2018
From NBC News
Doctors don’t cite african people claiming moscito nets don’t do it in the long run.
DDT went forbidden by the morally superior.
So be it.