National Geographic: The blood-sucking, disease-spreading parasites are expanding into new territories as wildlife populations, forest habitats and weather patterns change across North America, biologists have found. "This year`s mild winter and early spring were a bonanza for tick populations in the eastern United States," the National Science Foundation said today. "Reports of tick-borne disease rose fast." While Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in the Northeast and Upper Midwest, new research...
URL: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/09/07/disease-spreading-ticks-on-the-move-as-climate-changes/
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