{"id":4045,"date":"2023-07-05T18:03:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T23:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2023-07-05T18:31:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T23:31:27","slug":"in-the-u-s-the-worlds-deadliest-animal-is-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/07\/05\/in-the-u-s-the-worlds-deadliest-animal-is-on-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"In the U.S., the world\u2019s deadliest animal is on the move"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Washington Post<\/a> The deadliest animal in the world is smaller than a pencil eraser and weighs around two-thousandths of a gram \u2014 less than the weight of a single raindrop. Every year, it kills an estimated\u00a0700,000 people<\/a>\u00a0by partaking in what scientists grimly call a \u201cblood meal<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the mosquito \u2014 and, increasingly, it\u2019s on the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These global shifts, which will only accelerate as the planet warms<\/a>, have sparked concern that the diseases mosquitoes carry will exact an even higher toll in the months and years to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June alone, five cases of locally transmitted malaria were discovered in Texas and Florida: the first cases acquired in the United States in two decades. These cases, experts say, are unlikely to have a connection to warming temperatures \u2014 conditions in Florida and Texas are already suitable for malaria-carrying mosquitoes. But as urban heat islands expand and temperatures rise, mosquito-borne diseases are expected to travel outside of their typical regions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cClimate change allows the creeping edge of mosquito ranges to expand,\u201d said Sadie Ryan, a professor of medical geography at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, Georgetown University researchers published a paper in Biology Letters demonstrating that malaria mosquitoes\u2019 ranges\u00a0have already shifted in Africa over the past century<\/a>, farther from the equator and into higher altitudes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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