By Curtis Lavoie, Ottawa Citizen, May 20, 2014
The City of Ottawa should approve its new climate change management plan and get
on with implementing it. Our health depends on it. Climate change has already
enabled ticks carrying Lyme disease to expand north into our region and the
number of confirmed Lyme disease cases in Canada is increasing by hundreds every
year. Similarly, mosquitos that spread West Nile virus survive better as our
climate warms. Across Ontario, confirmed cases of West Nile virus have increased
from single instances just four or five years ago to hundreds of cases per year.
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