Environmental problems are bothering not only professionals but also simple people who want to know the development of the situation in the world. Still, the professionals from different spheres remain the most preoccupied people who care for the changes in the surrounding world. The environmental issues are usually connected with human health and if something happens scientists usually think about the influence of the affair on human health.
The changes in the environment happen every day. Some of these changes are really dangerous, some of them are just the predicted consequences or reasons for other disasters. The most recent environmental problem which happened in the world is connected with the diseases of human being and land animals found in marine life.
The problem is rather specific and requires deeper research as in case the parasites which attached marine animals will mutate people and land species will be in danger of being infected with the diseases the marine life is full of, and most marine species and diseases are not even discovered yet.
Considering the situation, the scientists report the vast majority of cases when human and livestock diseases are spread on marine life become more and more frequent. Such bacteria and infections as clostridium difficile, harbour seals, coxiella burnetti, cryptococcus gattii, fungus, toxoplasma gondii, sarcocystis neurona and sarcocystis neurona are the parasites which have been recently met in the marine animals.
Considering the effects these bacteria may result in the following consequences should be remembered, the production of the lethal toxins in the intestine, the development of the clinical disease and succumb to the infection, the cause of the aborts or impact on weak offspring’s development, and some of them may be fatal to marine life as they are fatal for the human beings (Pynn n.p.).
The bacteria and parasites which are met in the dead bodies of the marine animals really frustrate as it means that the mutation takes place. The organism managed to infect the species which were sustainable to them before. Something has changed and this may be the main reason for concern as the changes in the environment which have caused such changes may effect other organisms.
There are a lot of other consequences and bacteria which cause them. Dwelling upon the possibilities of the infection appearance and its spread, the scientists consider the opportunities of the water, air and soil delivery. The infection could appear in the body of the marine organisms, such as whales, via the air.
There animals have to use air and they are believed to exchange large amounts of air during breathing, this might be one of the ways the organism appeared in the marine life. Additionally water and soil pollution could be the reasons. The scientists prefer to think that is was the source of infection as if to consider the research conducted by a number of scientific centers and organizations is becomes obvious that more and more marine organisms are in danger.
Looking at the number of dead marine organisms and their size on the seashores, scientists cannot even imagine what is happening in the ocean with small organisms which are not seen (Muldoon n.d.).
The environmental health professionals are really disturbed about the problem. The presence of the infection in the marine organisms is really disturbing as the inability to treat these infections with the antibiotics makes the problem more devastating. The infections mentioned above were difficult for treating when they were found in animals.
Different kinds and types of antibiotics did not provide any results. The treatment of the marine organisms with such antibiotics is useless. The environmental health professionals should make sure that they are doing all possible to save those infected marine organisms which are already infected but are not dead.
The research should be done with taking the samples of the blood and of the skin of the dead organisms with the purpose to create the vaccine and prevent the spread of the disease further. Moreover, the water, soil and air samples in the infected organisms should be taken to identify the viruses which are there as this may help in the research.
Therefore, it ma be concluded that he environmental problems become more complicated for the scientific society. Dealing with the spread of bacteria and parasites is always difficult, especially in this case when it becomes obvious that the viruses which previously affected only human beings and land animals have spread on the new spices.
Marine organisms are under attack and the problem is really serious as scientists are not sure neither in the types of the bacteria which now infect marine life nor in the ways of bacteria spread.
The number of infected is also unknown as the world ocean is not researched up to the end and the number and the types of the organisms are not known at all. Possessing the information which is just seen on the dead samples, scientists can draw just the surface conclusions.
Works Cited
Muldoon, Katy. “Animal nature: Are humans, land animals spreading disease to marine life? Eagle watching; endangered-species ringtones.” Oregon Live LLC. OregonLive.com 23 Feb. 2012. Web.
Pynn, Larry. “Land-based pathogens discovered in marine mammals; scientists fear funding cuts for investigations.” Vancouver Sun. Vancouver Sun. 18 Feb. 2012. Web.