After a month of investigation, Italian public health officials discovered that the people of Castiglione di Cervia were, in fact, suffering from a tropical disease, chikungunya, a relative of dengue fever normally found in the Indian Ocean region. But the immigrants spreading the disease were not humans but insects: tiger mosquitoes, who can thrive in a warming Europe.
Aided by global warming and globalization, Castiglione di Cervia has the dubious distinction of playing host to the first outbreak in modern Europe of a disease that had previously been seen only in the tropics. More here:
Aided by global warming and globalization, Castiglione di Cervia has the dubious distinction of playing host to the first outbreak in modern Europe of a disease that had previously been seen only in the tropics. More here:
Yes -- you get the idea -- the earth has "warmed up" about one degree centigrade in the past 100 years (assuming they are measuring accurately) and this is what is causing the problem.
And how much of a brain-damaged, flinching, quivering, idiot do you have to be to buy it? Seriously -- and yet, this "reporter" writes it down as if it's all unquestioned fact. And they wonder why their influence (and revenue) is plummeting. The modern media is to be ridiculed.
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