The world’s population has more than tripled over the last 70 years. That alone makes humanity a growing target for infectious diseases.
. That alone makes humanity a growing target for infectious diseases under the constant pressure of natural selection.
Human-caused warming and associated increases in rainfall has permitted range expansion of insects such as mosquitoes and ticks that carry numerous infectious diseases. In Ohio, tick populations and the diseases they carry areCollin Carlson, a biologist at Georgetown University, and colleagues assembled data on ranges of 3,139 mammal species, especially bats; the viruses known to infect them; and predicted changes in ranges of those mammals due to global warming.
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