Weather forecasts will be used to predict disease outbreaks
2008-06-20 14:58:17 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Education News News)Dayton, Ohio (CaymanMama.com) — It has been reported that scientists are now forecasting weather as it helps them to predict potential health dangers. It has been see that when a cyclone wrecked the coast of Myanmar, diseases like malaria, dengue and cholera spawned outbreaks and when floods engulfed Iowa, it also raised many health issues.
The head of National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Conrad Lautenbacher, said that everything in our ec0-system is inter-connected as science has no borders. Issues like health, human behavior, weather and disasters are brought together through science. Conrad said that 50 worldwide organizations and 73 countries are partaking in Global Earth Observation System of Systems and they are expecting more to join.
American Public Health Association’s executive director, Dr. Georges Benjamin, said that latest technologies have been available for predicting earth surfaces and atmosphere and by using the data provided by them, it becomes easy to measure their effects on people, planets, plants and our environment.
For example, cholera conditions in India change with changes in the temperature in Bay of Bengal and satellites are perfectly equipped to measure the temperature changes. In addition to that, the researchers of climate are also forecasting the phenomenon of Pacific which affects the bay temperature, in this way they will be able to forecast about cholera.
Conrad said that changes in moisture and vegetation may help in predicting malaria outbreaks. He also showed an African vegetation map based on data from satellites. In addition to that, he also added that only collecting data about weather is not part of the system, they will also be using information on transportation, population changes, migration, social factors, behavioral factors and epidemiology.
Robert W. Corell, a scientist, found that anaphylactic shock in Alaska was caused due to a kind of bee which hibernates in the wet soil and had never before lived in the area. It had come there due to climate becoming wetter and milder. In one more case, diarrhea appears in the parts of the Northern Norway in which the moderate climate allowed beavers to spread germs.
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