Mysterious untreatable fevers once devastated whole families. This doctor discovered what caused them
It’s an ancient disease that may have evolved to confer protection against the plague
but until 20 years ago, it had scientists and doctors flummoxed.
They couldn’t explain why those afflicted, often in the same family, had recurring fevers, abdominal pain, troublesome rashes and muscle aches. Known as familial Mediterranean fever, the disease often went undiagnosed for years, and it was sometimes
fatal.
Unusual in most parts of the world, it was more common in the countries that border the Eastern Mediterranean including Turkey and Israel where one or two of every 1,000 people have it.
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Climate-related Security Risks in the 2020 Updated Nationally Determined Contributions
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Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) are the central instrument for states to communicate their contribution to the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change and reflect their wider approach to climate mitigation and adaptation. This SIPRI Insights paper analyses how the 2020 updated NDCs (16 submissions as of October 2020) discuss climate-related security risks and compares them with 2015. It finds that climate change is mainly seen as a risk to socio-economic development and human security and almost never as a risk to societal stability or the functioning of the state. The assessment of risks in NDCs largely focuses on direct climate impacts. This suggests that countries are currently not considering the risks from indirect climate impacts, including those that cross national borders, or the unintended adverse consequences of adaptation or mitigation responses. Going forward, c