Medical News Today
The California Lyme Disease Association has some advice for President George W. Bush about his recently disclosed bout of Lyme disease: Don’t be too quick to dismiss the threat it can pose.

“We hope for his sake it was caught early and treated sufficiently,” says CALDA president Phyllis Mervine. “Unfortunately, that’s not the case for many people who contract tick-borne infections.” (more…)

Climate change complicates everything. In addition to the much-talked about sea-level rise and its possible consequences, climate change has been implicated in the recent emergence of several infectious diseases. Drawing from a wide range of case studies that illustrate the potential effects of climate on disease dynamics, a series of presentations to be held at the joint meeting of the Ecological Society of America and the Society for Ecological Restoration will showcase what scientists are discovering about the links between climate and disease.