Farm animal disease to increase with climate change
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 11:02
in Biology & Nature
Researchers looked at changes in the behaviour of bluetongue a viral disease of cattle and sheep - from the 1960s to the present day, as well as what could happen to the transmission of the virus 40 years into the future. They found, for the first time, that an outbreak of a disease could be explained by changes to the climate.