Where Mosquitos Will Multiply Thanks To Climate Change
By 2050, if current rates of emissions continue, roughly half of the world’s people will live in places where the Aedes aegypti mosquito—one of the most serious threats to global health, given its resilience in urban spaces and preference for things like stagnant water around homes—flourishes. These researchers specifically studied the spread of the Aedes aegypti and Asian tiger (or Aedes albopictus) mosquitoes—two tropical species that have become the predominant transmitters of viruses like Zika, chikungunya, and dengue—under 17 climate-change scenarios. Their predictive model combines more than 33,000 data points on where mosquitoes have been detected across the world with historical data about their spread into Europe and the U.S. beginning in the 1970s and ‘80s, as well as projections of climate changes, human movement, and urban growth.
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