Monday, 12 March 2018

Climate change pushes ticks into Canada, bringing lyme disease (and confusion) with them

Climate change pushes ticks into Canada, bringing lyme disease (and confusion) with them

Joanne Seiff, a resident of Manitoba, contracted Lyme disease a couple of years ago but didn’t remember pulling off the tick that bit her; nor did she have the telltale bullseye rash of a tick bite. Her husband Jeff Marcus, who grew up in New York’s Hudson Valley, about an hour and a half from the eponymous town of Lyme, Connecticut, recognized her symptoms immediately because Lyme disease was common there.
Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/03/climate-change-pushes-ticks-into-canada-bringing-lyme-disease-and-confusion-with-them/?source=Snapzu

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