Climate Change Worsening Animal Disease
Climate change is doing a lot of bad stuff – contributing to droughts, further endangering already scarce species, raising temperatures. Now, add this to the list:
Climate change is widening viral disease among farm animals, expanding the spread of some microbes that are also a known risk to humans, the world’s top agency for animal health said on Monday.
The three most mentioned diseases were bluetongue, spread among sheep by biting midges; Rift Valley fever, a livestock disease that can also be picked up by people handling infected meat; and West Nile virus, which is transmitted by mosquito from infected birds to both animals and humans.
Read the full article here… Being veg is the best thing you can do to fight climate change. So kudos to you for already doing that. As we all know, climate change is very scary and a very real threat. It’s changing our entire world in both subtle and not so subtle ways. And we’re the ones responsible. That knowledge stops me dead in my tracks sometimes. But then I take a deep breath, keep walking and brainstorm more ways I can be a better steward to the earth. I get better at it everyday. I’ll admit, sometimes it’s frustrating, but most of the time it feels great to know I’m making a difference, no matter what the size.
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