Disease-Spreading Ticks Keep Marching North as Weather Stays Warmer

Bloomberg

A warming climate is pushing disease-spreading ticks farther north as weather stays warmer later in the year, Bloomberg reports. Blacklegged ticks, which spread the most disease in the U.S. and used to be confined to certain milder climates, have spread from their strongholds in southern New England and Upper Midwest to the far northern reaches of Minnesota and northern New England.

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