Still As Life

Upon reading an article on Google.org recently related to an Associated Press story about a rise in infectious diseases due to climate change, I couldn't help but chuckle to myself.

The article outlines how rising temperatures are increasing the worldwide spread of infectous diseases. Particularly the increase in cases of chikungunya fever in Italy and spreading throughout Europe where it was previously only common in Africa and Asia.

I know this doesn't really seem like a funny thing, but the reason I couldn't help but chuckle is because this is only logical. When the humidity in a room increases, a loaf of bread in the room will get mouldy much quicker. So it makes sense that when the atmosphere in general is maintaining heat and the humidity is building, that diseases, viruses and other fungi would also start to spread quicker. Yet it took an Associated Press article for this to even become widely realised.

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