UNIRV - 2026-2 - Questão 39

TEXTBF CLIMATE CHANGE IS SUPERCHARGING POLLEN AND MAKING ALLERGIES WORSE PAR IT WAS AROUND 18 00 ON 21 NOVEMBER 2016 WHEN THE AIR IN MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA TURNED DEADLY EMERGENCY SERVICE PHONE LINES LIT UP PEOPLE STRUGGLING TO BREATHE BEGAN FLOODING INTO HOSPITALS AND THERE WAS SO MUCH DEMAND FOR AMBULANCES THAT THE VEHICLES WERE UNABLE TO REACH PATIENTS STUCK AT HOME PAR IT SOON BECAME CLEAR THAT THIS WAS A MASSIVE CASE OF THUNDERSTORM ASTHMA WHICH OCCURS WHEN CERTAIN TYPES OF STORMS BREAK UP POLLEN PARTICLES IN THE AIR RELEASING PROTEINS AND SHOWERING THEM ON UNSUSPECTING PEOPLE BELOW THE WIDELY DISPERSED PROTEINS CAN TRIGGER ALLERGIC REACTIONS IN SOME PEOPLE EVEN AMONG THOSE WHO WEREN T PREVIOUSLY ASTHMATIC PAR THIS YEAR IN THE US POLLEN LEVELS ARE PREDICTED TO BE HIGHER THAN THE HISTORICAL AVERAGE ACROSS 39 STATES THIS SEASON AND THAT IS ONLY LIKELY TO GET WORSE IN THE YEARS TO COME EXPERTS WARN PAR POLLEN ITSELF IS AN ESSENTIAL AND EVER PRESENT PART OF OUR WORLD THESE MICROSCOPIC PARTICLES PASS BETWEEN PLANTS ENABLING THEM TO REPRODUCE WHILE SOME PLANTS SPREAD THEIR POLLEN WITH THE HELP OF INSECTS OTHERS RELY ON THE WIND SENDING HUGE VOLUMES OF THIS POWDERY SUBSTANCE AIRBORNE MANY TREES GRASSES AND WEED SPECIES RELY UPON WIND DISPERSAL FOR THEIR POLLEN IT IS THESE THAT ARE ESPECIALLY LIKELY TO CAUSE SEASONAL ALLERGIES OR HAY FEVER PAR THIS OCCURS WHEN YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM MISTAKENLY IDENTIFIES THE POLLEN AS A HARMFUL SUBSTANCE TRIGGERING A RESPONSE NORMALLY RESERVED FOR PATHOGENIC BACTERIA OR VIRUSES COMMON SYMPTOMS CAN INCLUDE A RUNNY NOSE ITCHY EYES AND SNEEZING IN SOME CASES SEASONAL ALLERGIES CAN TRIGGER BREATHING DIFFICULTIES WHEN INFLAMMATION IN THE AIRWAYS LEADS TO SWELLING MAKING IT HARD TO GET ENOUGH AIR INTO THE LUNGS PAR FONTE BBC NEWS CLIMATE CHANGE IS SUPERCHARGING POLLEN AND MAKING ALLERGIES WORSE 12 ABR 2025 DISPONIVEL EM URL HTTPS WWW BBC COM FUTURE ARTICLE 20250410 HOW CLIMATE DRIVEN THUNDERSTORMS SUPERCHARGE POLLEN ALLERGIES ACESSO EM 25 ABR 2026 PAR NO TRECHO IT SOON BECAME CLEAR THAT THIS WAS A MASSIVE CASE OF THUNDERSTORM ASTHMA A EXPRESSAO IT SOON BECAME CLEAR THAT PODE SER SUBSTITUIDA SEM PREJUIZO DE SENTIDO POR BEGIN ENUMERATE LABEL ALPH LEFTMARGIN ITEM A IT WAS IGNORED THAT ITEM B IT WAS LATER DENIED THAT ITEM C IT WAS UNCERTAIN THAT ITEM D IT QUICKLY BECAME EVIDENT THAT ITEM E IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE THAT END ENUMERATE