‘Shocking’ data shows the climate crisis and invasive mosquitos mean chikungunya could spread in 29 countries

‘Shocking’ data shows the climate crisis and invasive mosquitos mean chikungunya could spread in 29 countries

An excruciatingly painful tropical disease called chikungunya can now be transmitted by mosquitoes across most of Europe, a study has found.

Higher temperatures due to the climate crisis mean infections are now possible for more than six months of the year in Spain, Greece and other southern European countries, and for two months a year in south-east England. Continuing global heating means it is only a matter of time before the disease expands further northwards, the scientists said.

The analysis is the first to fully assess the effect of temperature on the incubation time of the virus in the Asian tiger mosquito, which has invaded Europe in recent decades. The study found the minimum temperature at which infections could occur is 2.5C lower than previous, less robust, estimates, representing a “quite shocking” difference, the researchers said.

  • lemming@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    9·
    6 hours ago

    It’s the strategy the UFO guys use of mixing ridiculous bullshit with the truth so if anything leaks it sounds like that half ridiculous load of shit you proved was fake to the public.

    Hmmmm… 🤔

    • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 hours ago

      I’ll take the opposite tack from the other guy, Bob Lazar comes off as a skilled liar, and aliens and time travelers require actual evidence.

      The US government did fake 90% of the UFO movement.

      Most of the fucked up story is told here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8F1HnpeQTo

      That’s a Behind the Bastards episode, Part One: How The U.S. Government Used Aliens To Destroy a Man’s Mind.

      The actual truth is more fucked up than the made up conspiracies, but also more boring. Weapons and Weapon Systems. That’s it. Bad ideas and worse coverups.

        • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          4 hours ago

          Yeah, the story is wild, but also it’s always tied back to nukes.

          An example is cattle mutilation. See, there was a project called “Plowshare” where some people, wanting to have more nukes, tried to find “peaceful” uses for nukes. So, the detonated a nuke, deep underground in the South West, in an effort to fracture the rock and release natural gas.

          This worked, except for the little fact that all the gas was contaminated with radioactive isotopes and was rendered unusable.

          But this gas was leaky, because the ground was nuked, so in order to track the cancers caused, government agents secretly vivisected cattle, mostly to remove lymph nodes to track a common radiation linked cancer. As always, they didn’t tell anyone local that they were doing this, which prompted local authorities and farmers to investigate.

          With some careful prodding, a few hints, and a placed agent or two, the guy investigating was convinced that it was aliens doing experiments.

    • redsand@infosec.pubEnglish
      32·
      6 hours ago

      Aliens(or time travelers) are probably real. Obama even said so in an interview just the other day. There’s a DEFCON talk on commonalities and national security implications of UFOs from a few years ago for more information. Also Bob Lazar who’s life makes no sense unless he’s real or the most complex and well done psyop in history.

      Probably doesn’t change your day to day life any in the face of fascism 🫤