Ancient Italian fossils reveal risk of parasitic infections due to climate change
Thursday, July 20, 2017 - 15:32
in Earth & Climate
In 2014, a team of researchers found that clams from the Holocene Epoch (that began 11,700 years ago) contained clues about how sea level rise due to climate change could foreshadow a rise in parasitic trematodes. Now, an international team has found that rising seas could be detrimental to human health on a much shorter time scale.