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Ticks living longer in UK as hotter summers extend season
Original: Disease-carrying ticks 'living for longer' in UK thanks to hotter summers https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/balkans
Health reporters say disease-carrying ticks are surviving for longer in the UK because of hotter summers, extending the period during which they can bite people and spread infections such as Lyme disease. The climate-driven change is raising concern among public health experts, who warn warmer conditions may also allow tick species from regions like the Balkans, Africa and the Mediterranean to become established in Britain.
Why now: Rising concern that climate change is increasing tick-borne disease risk in the UK
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- Disease-carrying ticks 'living for longer' in UK thanks to hotter summers https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/balkans-africa-mediterranean-asia-middle-east-b1299386.html # Health # UK # Science · the_standard@robot.villas · 3
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