• teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
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    Where are you at? Because hard winter weather hasn’t gone away, and that’s what keeps those tropical/subtropical diseases from traveling north. We got like 3 or 4 polar inversions in the contintental US just this winter, and at least one for years going back.

    Those diseases aren’t moving anywhere near us here, if you are right on the coast maybe as the ocean keeps it warmer in cold fronts, Washington DC was a malarial swamp since before we built the capitol there, but that’s the farthest north of any malaria I’ve heard of in the US.

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      Switzerland. The first tiger mosquito was spotted in Ticino in 2003 and they are established there now. In other parts of Switzerland as well.

      And at least by how it feels, our winters have been getting milder as well.