Mosquitos Spread Virus In L.A. Climate Change May Make Things Worse

"Climate change is exacerbating the risk of potentially dangerous mosquito-borne diseases in California.

Dengue, the world’s most common mosquito-borne illness, is not transmitted directly from insect to insect. Mosquitoes pick up the virus after they bite an infected person, then spread it by biting others.

Climate change is exacerbating the risk of potentially dangerous mosquito-borne diseases in California — threatening to turn more of those annoying-but-harmless bites into severe illnesses, experts say."

Rong-Gong Lin II reports for the Los Angeles Times September 30, 2024.