How climate change is raising the risks of another pandemic

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Evidence is mounting that human disruptions to natural ecosystems are raising risks of disease spread, according to a new study. As humans degrade Earths environment, we have created a world in which diseases may be increasingly apt to fester and multiply. Infection-spreading creatures such as mosquitoes and ticks are thriving on a planet warmed by a blanket of fossil fuel emissions. When pollution, hunting or development push rare organisms to extinction, parasites proliferate because they have evolved to target the most abundant species.