A Tale Of Three Mosquitoes: How A Warming World Could Spread Disease

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Will climate change cause mosquito-borne diseases to spread? Steve Doggett, Author provided

As the world warms, animals and plants will shift their ranges to keep pace with their favoured climate. While the changing distributions of species can tell us how climate change is affecting the natural world, it may also have a direct impact on us.

One good example is the disease carried by insects.

Those small, familiar flies called mosquitoes are responsible for much human suffering around the globe because of their ability to transmit diseases.