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The CDC says rising temperatures are partly to blame for the tripling of mosquito-, tick- and flea-borne illnesses from 2004 to 2016, but Maine’s governor, a climate skeptic, is tying health officials’ hands. 

Read the story: As disease-bearing ticks head north, weak government response threatens public health


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