Lyme : the first epidemic of climate change /

Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before. The first epidemic to emerge in the age of climate change, Lyme infects half a million people in the US and Europe each year, and untold multitudes in Canada, China, Russia, and Australia. Mar...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pfeiffer, Mary Beth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Lyme disease.
Ticks as carriers of disease.
Climatic changes.
Lyme Disease > epidemiology
Lyme Disease
Climate Change
Maladie de Lyme.
Tiques (Vecteurs de maladies)
Climat > Changements.
climate change.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Climatic changes
Lyme disease
Ticks as carriers of disease
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ticks, rising
  • "Invisible assassin"
  • An ancient bug revives
  • A disease, minimized
  • "Little armored tanks"
  • Faulty tests
  • An indestructible pathogen?
  • Not just lyme
  • Childhood lost
  • Lyme takes flight
  • A lyme-free world.

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