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The words “virus”, “infection” today sound especially often. The fault this is Ebola that erupted in West Africa. number there are thousands of victims of this incurable disease!
The epidemic was recognized as the largest since its discovery pathogen (1976). Cases of infection recorded in Liberia, Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone. Horrified Europe is waiting that a deadly disease will come from Africa along with any by air passenger.
But destructive tropical fevers overtake us others by global warming! So, earlier in Russia there are few who heard of West Nile fever. Today her virus spread to the Kuban, Volgograd and Rostov regions, and also south of the Black Earth region. Cases of the disease were first recorded in Lipetsk and Voronezh.
The rapid spread of the virus is mainly due to increase in average temperature, due to which climatic conditions become favorable for him. For example, the average the temperature in Sochi this winter corresponds to a long-term norm Israeli Safed. In Krasnodar, it is 0.5 degrees higher than in Venice. A virus fixed in the south of Russia will be easier to penetrate deep into the country.
The same applies to hemorrhagic Crimean fever, which carry ticks of the genus Hyaloma. Until this century isolated cases of the disease were recorded only in Rostov. However over the past three years, winter temperatures in Taganrog have approached Dzhankoyskoy (northern Crimea). In such conditions, carriers winter more comfortable, as a result, the infection has already reached Volgograd.
However, according to epidemiologists, this situation has the positive side. Over the same decade of cases tick-borne encephalitis in Russia has decreased by about a third. This is explained by the fact that our original infections are gradually crowded out by southern “aliens”.
Africa Viruses Global Warming Russia
