Plague could worsen with global warming By James Kilner, Reuters
November 14, 2005 OSLO (Reuters) - Warmer, wetter weather
brought on by global warming could increase outbreaks of the
plague, which has killed millions down the ages and wiped out
one third of Europe's population in the 14th century, academics
said. Migratory birds spreading avian flu from Asia today could
also carry the plague bacteria westward from their source in
Central Asia, Nils Stenseth, head of a three-day conference on
the plague and how it spreads, told Reuters on Monday. Flu
pandemic "inevitable" and to cost $800 billion say World Bank,
WHO November 7, 2005 The potential economic cost of a pandemic
of human influenza -- which the World Health Organization (WHO)
now says is "inevitable" -- would top $800 billion according to
a World Bank report released today. Global warming to fuel rise
in asthma, malaria November 2, 2005 The Center for Health and
the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, along with co-
sponsors Swiss Re and t