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The article doesn't address treatment efficacy in humans. How is it treated? How effective is the treatment? Can this develop resistance to the treatment? The spread mechanisms and persistence are concerning, but without info on treatment I'm not sure how much I should freak out about this.
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Less insecticide is probably the key thing. Driving in the eighties with windscreens full of insects, and now hardly anything, and a lot less of the things that lived on them.
Sometimes I wonder about that. The measure is number of insect impacts on windshields but is the car the same? If we use a more modern care would the increased aerodynamics prevent impacts as instead of punching through the air you are cutting through it? Have never read the full experimental setup and assumptions... I do know that I have less dead bug then when I was a kid...
We will see more and more fungi infecting mammals in the coming years. Mammals and birds evolved higher body temperatures in part to protect from fungal infections. As most fungi are dying above 37°C. But a high temperature summer is a selection pressure on any mushroom trying to survive, and hence might evolve to survive 40° summers and thus also survive in our bodies. I really hope cordyceps is one of the last to d…
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Not having cats is an option that is not seriously considered. Dogs are even worse. Make them shit in your own backyard please. If you are a city dweller please do not keep “pets”, it’s bloody ridiculous, thank you.
You seem to think humans keep cats as pets, which indicates you've never lived with a cat before.
Why are we allowing immigrant cats into the country?
Why are we allowing immigrant cats into the country?
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You first? Also, what is that babble about "the planet's ecosystem" being better off by eliminating humans? If you really want to see it as a whole - the Gaia hypothesis - then humans are part of it just like flies and ticks and mosquitos and birds and whales. All play a role, some spread diseases to others while they feed yet again others. Removing humans from the equation is just like Mao's decision to get rid of t…
We are in the midst of a great extinction event. It’s the only extinction event caused by one species. We are quite bad for the planet’s ecosystem and things like factory farming of cows and pigs cause great suffering. Having far fewer humans on the planet would be a great benefit to other species and to humanity.
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We've been keeping pets as a species for considerably longer than we've had cities. It's basically an ingrained part of how we react to animals now.
In dwarf fortress you can have dragons as pets. Never got there, tho I think I will train dogs in my current fortress.
This kind of hyper-scary overreaction from the CDC official being quoted and other government agents is a big cause of the current loss of trust in those institutions.
A few years ago monkeypox was gonna kill all of us and our dogs, I get “extreme heat” and “severe weather” warnings for days where the weather is 20* below the annual peak in my home town, and now a fungus is going to kill me and my cats.
Ok boomer - just stop worrying please?