The great JoNova has put up a fascinating post up regarding climate change and pandemics and it includes valuable links to several related articles and posts. Her post draws from this study regarding temperatures and disease during Roman times. As is typical, the study is filled with all sorts of charts, references and other supporting material that can easily distract the main message. Therefore, I have extracted the key parts, as I see them, and included one of the charts at the most appropriate place in the condensed version of the report below (emphasis added):
Thanks - but what I get out of this is that cold weather makes Italians sick. But I think a study of the eskimos, who were always used to cold, would find that they rarely got sick until the white men brought diseases that they had no immunity to. I guess you're right, it's the change in climate, at least when it turns colder in a land that's usually warm, that can cause sickness. Thanks for a very unusual report.
I hate the cold 🥶! But I did read, if Yellowstone volcano ever erupts, most of the US will be in the ice age! Most of the world will be under ice and snow!
Thanks - but what I get out of this is that cold weather makes Italians sick. But I think a study of the eskimos, who were always used to cold, would find that they rarely got sick until the white men brought diseases that they had no immunity to. I guess you're right, it's the change in climate, at least when it turns colder in a land that's usually warm, that can cause sickness. Thanks for a very unusual report.
Thanks, Al!
I hate the cold 🥶! But I did read, if Yellowstone volcano ever erupts, most of the US will be in the ice age! Most of the world will be under ice and snow!