Your Fault: Dengue Fever Could Get Really Bad Because Of Global Boiling

A grand total of four people in California got it, so, that means a doomsaying article

California faces ‘unprecedented’ local spread of dengue fever, possibly driven by climate change

California last week clocked its fourth case of locally transmitted dengue fever this year — an alarming rise in a sometimes-deadly disease that experts fear could be fueled by climate change.

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed the newest incidence of the mosquito-borne illness in a resident of Panorama City, a neighborhood in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley. The department noted that the individual had not traveled to areas where dengue is endemic, and that the case appeared unrelated to three others, also locally acquired, that were reported in the county earlier this month.

“We are seeing the local transmission of dengue, which is unprecedented in Los Angeles County,” Muntu Davis, Los Angeles County health officer, said in a statement.

Obviously, it has to be the mosquitos, rather, than, say, all the migrants/illegals coming from the Caribbean, particularly Haiti, and Venezuela, right? Or, all the ones flowing through areas of Mexico and Central America, right? Areas of high transmission risk. Transmission directly from person to person is almost unheard of, but, it can be through blood, like reusing drug needles. Or, say, when someone is imported to the US from an area where they caught dengue, then, a mosquito bites them and then bites someone else.

The incidence of dengue has risen sharply in recent years, surging from 505,430 cases worldwide in 2000 to 6.5 million in 2023, WHO reported.

The global health agency attributed that increase to a shift in distribution of mosquitoes that carry the virus, weather phenomena and climate change. The latter, according to WHO, has brought higher temperatures, rainfall and humidity — conditions that are generally favorable to mosquitoes.

Or, more people who are living in squalor in countries that are getting worse as they try socialism. A minor 1.6F increase in global temperatures since 1850 is no big deal.

Prior to the incident on Sept. 25, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced two cases in the city of Baldwin Park on Sept. 18 and one in the same city on Sept. 9.

“This year and last have been two of the high-burden years of dengue on record around the world, and climate change is likely playing a large role in this,” Erin Mordecai, an associate professor in biology at Stanford University, told The Hill in an email.

It’s not a science, it’s a cult.

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