Climate Change Is Causing a Dangerous Uptick in Cases of Lyme Disease
Ticks that carry the pathogenic bacteria can now survive in environments where they previously would've frozen to death, resulting in an increased risk of infection.
Gabriela Serrato Marks is a Ph.D. candidate in marine geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Shee uses stalagmites to create climate records that can be used by anthropologists and historians.
Ticks that carry the pathogenic bacteria can now survive in environments where they previously would've frozen to death, resulting in an increased risk of infection.