Tick-Borne Diseases May Spread More Easily With Global Warming

While some studies say global warming is not to blame for an upswing in tick-borne disease occurances, a new experiment shows that warmer temperatures are indeed a problem when it comes to ticks turning towards humans for lunch.

After noticing several instances of tick-borne illnesses affecting humans during particularly hot times, Didier Raoult, a professor at the University of Marseille School of Medicine in France, decided it was time to test out if higher temperatures drive disease-carrying dog ticks to latch on to humans.

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