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Climate Change Poised Make Infectious Disease Outbreaks More Frequent
2015-02-16 20:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: As the catastrophic Ebola outbreak showed the world recently, the modern age of global air travel has made it far easier for disease to spread. But climate change, which is shuffling habitable zones for pathogen-carrying animals, is poised to make future outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Ebola, H1N1 and TB worse, and more frequent. In an article published Sunday in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, two zoologists studying parasites in drastically different environments--one...
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