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West Nile Threat: Controlling Some Outbreaks a Double-Edged Sword
2014-07-11 06:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A strategy that could help contain some mosquito-borne illnesses has now been discovered to make West Nile virus more prevalent among local swarms - an incredibly important discovery in the midst of growing concerns about this year's outbreaks. You likely have heard the latest bad news from the Caribbean. Two new and dangerous mosquito-borne illnesses are sweeping across the Americas and headed for Florida. The non-fatal chikungunya virus has even shown up in a number of imported and isolated...
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Water Wars: Egyptians Condemn Ethiopia's Nile Dam Project
2013-09-28 00:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: "Ethiopia is killing us," taxi driver Ahmed Hossam said, as he picked his way through Cairo's notoriously traffic-clogged streets. "If they build this dam, there will be no Nile. If there's no Nile, then there's no Egypt." Projects on the scale of the $4.7 billion, 1.1-mile-long (1.7-kilometer-long) Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam often encounter impassioned resistance, but few inspire the kind of dread and fury with which most Egyptians regard plans to dam the Blue Nile River. Egypt insists Ethiopia's...
Researchers trace how West Nile vectors will respond to climate change
2013-09-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Through tracking changes in the climate, researchers aim to get a lead on West Nile virus outbreaks by anticipating where the insects that spread the disease will emerge. Like most vector-borne pathogens, West Nile virus has links to temperature and rainfall. However, the disease can go from surging epidemics to nearly negligible numbers of infections from one year to the next, even under similar weather conditions (ClimateWire, Aug. 20). This makes it especially difficult for health officials...
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West Nile Virus Season to Last Longer as Climate Changes
2013-09-10 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Warm weather brings ice cream, beach days, and other joys of summer but it also brings the incessant buzz of mosquitoes. While a number of mosquitoes will bite and leave little more than a red welt, others, especially in the southern half of the U.S., can transmit West Nile virus, which can cause potentially lethal West Nile fever, encephalitis and meningitis. New research provides doses of good and bad news about how a changing climate will affect the southern house mosquito, which is the main mosquito...
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BP Egypt announces significant gas discovery in deepwater Nile Delta
2013-09-09 15:30:18| Green Car Congress
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