Jonathan Patz Among Three Experts Interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio on Climate Change Affects on Vector Borne Disease

 

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A warmer climate means mosquitoes, ticks and their diseases will thrive

Angela Davis and Matt Alvarez

Longer summers and a warmer climate can create a breeding ground for ticks and mosquitoes, and help them spread diseases.       

Insect-borne illnesses from ticks and mosquitoes pose a real threat to human health. The most common ones are West Nile virus, Lyme disease, Zika virus and even malaria — which was recently discovered to have resurfaced in a few cases last month in Florida and Texas. 

Minnesota’s climate once provided a short window of warm months for pests and their illnesses to thrive, but climate change is now having an impact on the state’s environment.      

MPR News host Angela Davis continues her series of conversations on the health implications of climate change. Angela and her guests will talk about the diseases that pests can carry, how they can make us sick and how climate change impacts the breeding ground and migration of these insects. 


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