One of the most worst diseases a person can get is Lyme Disease. This disease comes from tick-borne bites and can become a serious problem if global warming has anything to say about it. Global warming is increasing the length of seasons, which is allowing species of ticks to stay alive throughout the year, and that makes them a problem year round, and not just in the summer time. According to Yale University, global warming is changing the feeding patterns of ticks and that can lead to more severe infections by ticks to people who are bit by ticks.

Since 1982, there has been a 25-fold increase in Lyme Disease. Discovered back in the 1970s in Lyme, Conn. in a bunch of children, it has now become the most common tick-borne infection in the United States. In 2007, there were 27,444 cases of Lyme Disease. That is a huge increase from the less than 10,000 that were reported during the early 1990s.

While Lyme Disease can be treated easily with early diagnosis that includes the appearance of a bulls-eye rash, the risk of no treatment makes Lyme Disease much more serious. Without treatment, the infection gets into the bloodstream and that can lead to facial palsy, pains, heartbeat problems and arthritis.

Often when we think of global warming, we think of changing habitats, rising seas and changing weather patterns, but we often forget about the small changes that can happen. The reverberating impact that spreads out from climate change like ripples in a pond. With the changing of our world, small things like ticks change too, and that can change some lives forever.

Global warming is changing the habits of many animals, making them more dangerous or causing them to die away. While it is hard to predict the future with climate change, one thing is certain, the world is changing and will be very different from the one we all grew up in. Whether it is Lyme Disease or rising oceans, nature is beginning to fight back against our relentless onslaught of environmental destruction. Sorry to say, we are no match for nature.