Thawing of permafrost may disturb historic cattle burial grounds in East Siberia
Climate warming in the Arctic may increase the risk of zoonoses due to expansion of vector habitats, improved chances of vector survival during winter, and permafrost degradation. Monitoring of soil temperatures at Siberian cryology control stations since 1970 showed correlations between air tempera...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3222928 2023-05-15T14:57:40+02:00 Thawing of permafrost may disturb historic cattle burial grounds in East Siberia Revich, Boris A. Podolnaya, Marina A. 2011-11-21 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222928 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22114567 https://doi.org/10.3402/gha.v4i0.8482 en eng CoAction Publishing http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222928 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22114567 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v4i0.8482 © 2011 Boris A. Revich and Marina A. Podolnaya. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY-NC Cluster:Vulnerable Populations in the Arctic Text 2011 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.3402/gha.v4i0.8482 2013-09-03T23:00:07Z Climate warming in the Arctic may increase the risk of zoonoses due to expansion of vector habitats, improved chances of vector survival during winter, and permafrost degradation. Monitoring of soil temperatures at Siberian cryology control stations since 1970 showed correlations between air temperatures and the depth of permafrost layer that thawed during summer season. Between 1900s and 1980s, the temperature of surface layer of permafrost increased by 2–4°C; and a further increase of 3°C is expected. Frequent outbreaks of anthrax caused death of 1.5 million deer in Russian North between 1897 and 1925. Anthrax among people or cattle has been reported in 29,000 settlements of the Russian North, including more than 200 Yakutia settlements, which are located near the burial grounds of cattle that died from anthrax. Statistically significant positive trends in annual average temperatures were established in 8 out of 17 administrative districts of Yakutia for which sufficient meteorological data were available. At present, it is not known whether further warming of the permafrost will lead to the release of viable anthrax organisms. Nevertheless, we suggest that it would be prudent to undertake careful monitoring of permafrost conditions in all areas where an anthrax outbreak had occurred in the past. Text Arctic permafrost Russian North Yakutia Siberia PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Global Health Action 4 1 8482 |
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Climate warming in the Arctic may increase the risk of zoonoses due to expansion of vector habitats, improved chances of vector survival during winter, and permafrost degradation. Monitoring of soil temperatures at Siberian cryology control stations since 1970 showed correlations between air temperatures and the depth of permafrost layer that thawed during summer season. Between 1900s and 1980s, the temperature of surface layer of permafrost increased by 2–4°C; and a further increase of 3°C is expected. Frequent outbreaks of anthrax caused death of 1.5 million deer in Russian North between 1897 and 1925. Anthrax among people or cattle has been reported in 29,000 settlements of the Russian North, including more than 200 Yakutia settlements, which are located near the burial grounds of cattle that died from anthrax. Statistically significant positive trends in annual average temperatures were established in 8 out of 17 administrative districts of Yakutia for which sufficient meteorological data were available. At present, it is not known whether further warming of the permafrost will lead to the release of viable anthrax organisms. Nevertheless, we suggest that it would be prudent to undertake careful monitoring of permafrost conditions in all areas where an anthrax outbreak had occurred in the past. |
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Thawing of permafrost may disturb historic cattle burial grounds in East Siberia |
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© 2011 Boris A. Revich and Marina A. Podolnaya. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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