Green Options » vector-borne disease http://greenoptions.com/tag/vector-borne-disease Posts tagged 'vector-borne disease' Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:35:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Of Climate Change, Mosquitoes and Disease http://ecoscraps.com/2008/01/08/of-climate-change-mosquitoes-and-disease/ http://ecoscraps.com/2008/01/08/of-climate-change-mosquitoes-and-disease/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:35:18 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecoscraps.com/2008/01/08/of-climate-change-mosquitoes-and-disease/ “Yellow fever mosquito” (Aedes aegypti) biting human (photo by USDA)Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases are the latest to warn that so-called “tropical” diseases like dengue could become more common in the U.S. as the climate warms and disease-carrying mosquitoes expand their territory.

Photo courtesy of the U.S.D.A.

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