Study ties amphibian collapses with increased malaria outbreaks

[UngulateNerd92]

If you remove frogs and other "mosquito-reducers" from the landscape, what happens to malaria rates?

As we’ve learned the hard way this year, our health is intertwined with the health of other animals. SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, probably jumped to humans from bats, potentially by way of a secondary host and perhaps via a wildlife market. The disease has “demonstrated in a dramatic way the interdependence between species,” says Joakim Weill, a PhD candidate in environmental economics at the University of California Davis.

Study ties amphibian collapses with increased malaria outbreaks

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Thanks for sharing @UngulateNerd92 !

This really doesn't suprise me and it just highlights how important biodiversity is for human health.

 

[UngulateNerd92]

Thanks for sharing @UngulateNerd92 !

This really doesn't suprise me and it just highlights how important biodiversity is for human health.

Absolutely my friend! It is a shame that much of our population has to learn these things the hard way! The Covid-19 pandemic and now this... Unfortunately the latter probably won't get as much if any media coverage.

As American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, Mark Twain said, and unfortunately this also seems to apply to biodiversity conservation, "There is no better lesson learned than holding the cat upside down by the tail."

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Absolutely my friend! It is a shame that much of our population has to learn these things the hard way! The Covid-19 pandemic and now this... Unfortunately the latter probably won't get as much if any media coverage.

One positive last year though has been very painful lessons learned in how inextricably linked to human health the health of the planet and biodiversity is so I think the general message has really got out there to the world's population.

Regarding the amphibian extinction and population decline crisis and malaria though it is really very difficult to get people to care and I am inclined to agree with you about the lack of media coverage.

It reminds me very much of the situation here in Brazil with yellow fever and primate population declines in the sense that people only begin to worry and act when it begins to impact humans and becomes a public health crisis.

 

[birdsandbats]

Oh, a reason to get chytrid research more mainstream?

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Oh, a reason to get chytrid research more mainstream?

Yes could be, but to put it somewhat clinically generally the pandemic has presented an important strategic opportunity for the importance of conservation to be showcased to the world and its implications for public health.