"Lyme disease is on the rise. According to researchers from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health in Toronto, Canada, Lyme disease incidence increased about 80% in the United States between 1993 and 2007. That’s a huge jump, and it’s being blamed to a large extent on climate change."
"Warming global temperatures are giving ticks, which carry the disease, more time to complete their life cycle and reach more northerly latitudes that used to be too cold for them."
(ALDA note: As climate change science is still in debate, the REAL story related to Lyme Disease is that the reported trend in warming temperatures are causing a dramatic increase in tick-borne diseases in some areas.
This should be BIG news for those who contend that Lyme Disease is only endemic in the northeast U.S. and is spreading to others parts of the country! This disparity in logic calls for an investigation and funding for research that will objectively study the incidence of the tick-borne diseases in ALL parts of the country, including the Southern U.S.)
