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Climate Change Boosts Disease Spread
2013-08-17 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Some like it hot: more protozoans can infect the monarch butterfly as climates become milder; nematode parasites get two chances to infect caribou and reindeer as a result of Arctic warming; and coral pathogens become more active with warmer seas. Humans can and should learn from all these interactions, write Sonia Altizer, of the University of Georgia in the US, and her colleagues. She argues in Science that climate change is affecting the spread of disease worldwide. Human risk of disease...
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