Trump's climate censorship prevents CDC from preparing the public for insect-borne illness
JOE ROMM at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-cdc-wont-admit-climate-change-is-driving-surge-in-insect-borne-diseases-24f0134fbbab/
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Scientists have warned us for a long time that invasive species and tropical diseases will thrive and spread in a changing and warming climate. And until recently, even the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was very blunt that climate change was driving an increase in insect-borne diseases.
But the Trump administration has been censoring and deleting references to climate change by federal scientists, websites, and agencies since its inception. And that seems to extend to the CDC as well, even when it is discussing one of the fastest growing threats to Americans’ health.
The CDC reported Tuesday that the number of Americans catching diseases from mosquito, flea, and tick bites more than tripled in the past decade. Its latest “Vital Signs” report explains that reported cases of insect-borne disease like dengue, Zika, and Lyme have soared from 27,000 in 2004 to 96,000 in 2016.
Worse, as the CDC explains, “The reported data substantially underestimate disease occurrence,” since many cases go unreported or misdiagnosed.
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