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Extreme temperatures are fueling more encounters between people and pathogens

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“The health impacts of climate change are here,” says Dr. Vishnu Laalitha Surapaneni, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. “And they are affecting us right here, right now.” Tickborne diseases are one example of climate’s impact on human health. With warming temperatures, the habitable environment for ticks is stretching further north, into Canada and even Nova Scotia. Neither place had reported cases ofNearly 15% of People Worldwide Have Had Lyme Disease, Study Says

With global warming, mosquitoes are also encroaching further north than they have ever ventured before. Diseases they carry, such as dengue, have been reported far outside of their typical tropical areas in places like New York City—and disturbingly, the cases aren’t always from travelers, but often from infected mosquitoes circulating in the region.

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