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The coming diseases: As the climate warms, Alaska faces new threats from zoonotic illnesses

Several factors put Alaska at particular risk from animal-borne diseases.

By Yereth Rosen April 5, 2021
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The warming climate in Alaska and across the circumpolar North is creating new health and safety risks for people, animals and ecosystems. This piece is the part of a series that explores zoonotic diseases and other hazards emerging in a warming and thawing Alaska.

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