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Originally Posted by mulp
Dengue is a problem in the US in the territory of Puerto Rico, and in places Americas like to go, like Brazil and Monterey, Mexico - not exactly impoverished areas.
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There's no poverty in Mexico and Brazil?
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Originally Posted by mulp
Yellow Fever caused 5000 death in Memphis near the end of the 19th century.
And the mortgage collapse has certainly created lots of pools of stagnant water. I suppose you can call those neighboods of foreclosed houses with many having pools impoverished, but that isn't the typical use of the term.
All of these mosquito spread diseases have two other things in common, no prevention and no treatment.
In most of the US, the population of infected mosquitoes is reduced to near zero in the fall, and it takes a while for the new disease free mosquitoes in the spring to pick up the disease. This isn't the case in places where these diseases are a public health problem with some regularity. While some argue global warming will improve the climate of much of the US by eliminating winter, that brings with it the increased risk of these diseases. Unless the warmer climate is also drier and the midwest turns to desert or to a new dust bowl.
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To what degree global warming will harm or benefit the country remains unsolved. The most important thing we need to remember about global warming is that there is nothing we can do to stop the warming at this time. The most practical approach is to save our capital for investment in the new technologies of the future.
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