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While most of us already know that climate change and global warming could be responsible for the terrifying intensity of typhoons and hurricanes that world gets every year, no one really pays attention to how these changes on Earth impact the way disease-causing organisms such as pest and parasites prey on us humans.

Chalk up one more reason why we should fight climate change.

According to experts and officials in Minnesota, the state has been seeing a lot more ticks compared to the past years. These ticks commonly attach themselves onto game such as deer and occasionaly, to humans.

These ticks have been known to cause Lyme disease. If left untreated, this illness can cause an assortment of permanent damage to a person’s nervous system and heart.

The proliferation of these ticks have been blamed on how the changing temperatures have tipped the ecological behavior of the little animal to expand its territory.This shows that the issue of climate change is not just something about the weather – it’s literally about everything in our daily lives including our very health.