Climate change moving tropical diseases north (and south)

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"Meet the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

Actually, you don’t want to meet this little lady, who bites for blood that she needs to mature her eggs.

The Aedes aegypti spreads dengue fever, which affects about 100 million people a year. Most are in tropical and subtropical regions–South and Central America, southeast Asia and Africa. Dengue fever is rare in the U.S. except along the border with Mexico.

That’s changing–in part because of climate change."

http://www.marcgunther.com/2011/06/09/dengue-fever-coming-to-a-neighborhood-near-you/