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We know all about mosquitoes and ticks in Minnesota. And the diseases they carry — Lyme disease, West Nile virus, dengue fever — are increasing as our climate warms.

In fact, 58 percent of human pathogenic diseases are aggravated by climate change. That’s according to a 

 published in Nature Climate Change this month.

Erik Franklin is a coauthor on the study and a researcher at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. He joined Climate Cast this week to talk about the paper.

Click play on the audio player above or subscribe to the Climate Cast podcast to hear more.

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Climate change is worsening more than half of all known human pathogenic diseases —including those spread by mosquitoes and ticks in Minnesota.

Climate change is worsening more than half of all known human pathogenic diseases -- including those spread by mosquitoes and ticks in Minnesota.

From anthrax in the Arctic to tickborne illness at home, climate change worsens disease

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