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Climate Cast ®
Paul Huttner

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

blacklegged ticks
Health Department epidemiologist Dave Neitzel shows off a black-legged tick on his arm on May 6.
Elizabeth Dunbar MPR News | 2011

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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 study 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.