Flying Squid@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 4 months agoNeolithic population collapse may have been caused by plague, researchers saywww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1113arrow-down12
arrow-up1111arrow-down1external-linkNeolithic population collapse may have been caused by plague, researchers saywww.theguardian.comFlying Squid@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareA_A@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·4 months agoWith the rise of global warming, risks of such epidemics increases … thankfully today, we have antibiotics and vaccines against plague. So, let’s try real hard not to decay back into stone age.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·4 months agoI wouldn’t be too reliant on antimicrobials. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antimicrobial-resistance
minus-squareA_A@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·4 months agoYes, this is a real concern … … but allow me to express it in a funny way : some microbes are trying real hard to find a cure against penicillin.
minus-squarelennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoWhen on the gallows, humour may be all you have left 😄
minus-squareleds@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-24 months agoPost just before this one: We are in a race with ever-evolving bacteria — and we are losing. Climate change is making the battle much harder Edit: Better link? Edit edit : that link crashes Jerboa: !climate@slrpnk.net/post/11406660
minus-squareA_A@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoYes, thanks. Same link but from : lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/climate@slrpnk.net … Climate change could return us to the pre-antibiotic era : https://lemmy.world/post/17552975
minus-squaredaniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-24 months agoI would argue that the higher risk for this is the constant travel between countries. A plague that may have affected a specific area in the past will now hit all humanity in a couple of months, as seen with covid. Also constant travel is one of the big contributors to global warming.
With the rise of global warming, risks of such epidemics increases … thankfully today, we have antibiotics and vaccines against plague. So, let’s try real hard not to decay back into stone age.
I wouldn’t be too reliant on antimicrobials.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antimicrobial-resistance
Yes, this is a real concern …
… but allow me to express it in a funny way : some microbes are trying real hard to find a cure against penicillin.
That is not untrue.
When on the gallows, humour may be all you have left 😄
Post just before this one: We are in a race with ever-evolving bacteria — and we are losing. Climate change is making the battle much harder
Edit: Better link?
Edit edit : that link crashes Jerboa: !climate@slrpnk.net/post/11406660
Yes, thanks.
Same link but from : lemmy.world
https://lemmy.world/c/climate@slrpnk.net
… Climate change could return us to the pre-antibiotic era :
https://lemmy.world/post/17552975
I would argue that the higher risk for this is the constant travel between countries.
A plague that may have affected a specific area in the past will now hit all humanity in a couple of months, as seen with covid.
Also constant travel is one of the big contributors to global warming.