Did climate change contribute to the swine flu pandemic?

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Because AGW proponents seem to think so!

http://www.1913intel.com/2008/10/07/climate-change-seen-aiding-spread-of-deadly-diseases/
And I thought that the cases of flu illnesses usually spikes during the colder winter months, "flu season." So why are they saying warming will contribute to avian flu?

http://www.google.org/flutrends/
A doctor was even commenting that this was an odd time to have a flu outbreak when asked about the swine flu outbreak.
 
That article doesn't have anything to do with swine flu. Most of the diseases listed there are parasite-born, and most of the parasites which carry them require warm temperatures to live.

Increasing temperatures increases the range in which these parasites can go.

Global warming also affects precipitation, increasing the chance for flooding in some areas and droughts in others--both causing diminished fresh water supplies.
 
No, airlines did. Because now people can move from one side of the world to the other with ease they bring their diseases with them too. Though no be exact, there is no pandemic. The whole world hasn't been infected yet. Only one or two cases here and there, to be a pandemic whole populations on every continent need to be infected. Only Mexico has an epidemic.

And this swine flu is a new strain, it has evolved from the common flu with the bird flu to be come strong enough to have serious effects on the body anytime not just when the body's most weak and that's when it is cold.

Viruses are living creatures that constantly evolve to get stronger to fight stronger immune systems. It has nothing to do with global warming unless you want say that the toxins from greenhouse gases that we have been breathing for the past decades have eroded our immune system.
 
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