Climate change may be bad for people but it's good for bugs. Germs of all kinds, as well as mosquitoes and other disease carriers, will live longer in warmer weather because cold kills them. They'll find more areas with the hot, humid conditions they need to thrive. Disease-carrying insects have already begun to move into new territory, climbing?higher up the Andes?in South America and reaching farther north into Canada and the U.S. to spread what were once considered tropical diseases like West Nile virus. "Insect-borne diseases like dengue fever and malaria are now being reported in higher elevations in Asia and Latin America," says?Dr. Francesca Dominici, senior associate dean for research in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University's School of Public Health. "Mosquitoes that carry malaria are being found in areas where before they would die." Read More at www.npr.org