Ancient Italian fossils reveal risk of parasitic infections due to climate change

(University of Missouri-Columbia) In 2014, a team of researchers led by a paleobiologist from the University of Missouri 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 from Mizzou and the Universities of Bologna and Florida has found that rising seas could be detrimental to human health on a much shorter time scale.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news