"Deadly Dozen"

Wildlife Conservation Society has come out with the “deadly dozen” diseases that are likely to become well spread through out the world due to climate change . They are;

Avian Flu: is an influenza caused by viruses adapted to birds” which could take an other adaptation and humans could get it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian_influenza

tick-born babsia: parasites that invade red blood cells and may cause fatigue, aches, fever, chills, sweating, dark urine, enlarged spleen, or anemia.
http://www.stopticks.org/ticks/babesiosis.asp

cholera; an intestinal infection caused by eating or drinking food or beverage that has Vibrio cholerae. It can come with diarrhea that may cause dehydration and vomiting may occur.
http://www.who.int/topics/cholera/en/

ebola: is transmitted by blood to blood contact. It causes fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/

parasites: an organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host's expense. dictionary on my computer.
plague: is flu like symptoms that is transmitted between animals and humans. the fatality rate is 30%-60%.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs267/en/

lyme disease; it is transmitted by a bite of tick. It comes with cutaneous manifestations, and it also impacts the nervous system, heart, eye and joints.
http://www.who.int/topics/lyme_disease/en/

red tide of algae blooms: you get from eating shell fish
rift valley fever, is contracted by humans touching blood of animals. Comes with loss of appetite vomiting, fever, muscle pain, and headache.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs207/en/

sleeping sickness: also known as African trypanosmiasis. Transmitted to humans from a bite of tsets fly which give humans a parasite. It starts with fever, headaches, joint pains and itching. The second stage includes confusion, sensory disturbances and poor coordination, disturbance of sleep cycle.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs259/en/

terberculosis: a human can get from in hailing the bacteria that some on with TB has sneezed or coughed out. The most common symptoms of TB are fatigue, fever, weight loss, coughing, and night sweats. http://www.medicinenet.com/tuberculosis/article.htm#toca


yellow fever: is transmitted to humans through a mosquito bite appears with common flu symptoms and then fever rises and blood appears in vomit.
http://www.who.int/topics/yellow_fever/en/

http://www.wcs.org/new-and-noteworthy/deadly-dozen.aspx

Air in our lungs

Air in our lungs from Dan Wolotsky on Vimeo.

This is a video of me interviewing Matt, an international race walk competitor humanitarian, about the air in places he travels to.

Skin cancer

We al have heard the warnings about tanning and especially tanning with artificial light and how too much UV rays can cause skin cancer.
We all have heard that we problem get more UV rays as the ozone layer is eaten away that more harmful UV rays will come into the atmosphere cause more skin cancer.
There is more right now there is research being done with skin cancer. They are finding out that even if thee ozone layer stays the same but the temperature rises that there will be more chances of skin cancer. The research they are doing says that per degree C. it is 2% more likely that some one will get skin cancer.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12653470
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18528559