If you're worried about vampires, blood-sucking creatures that hunt at night, then you'd better be worried about climate change.
Because climate change is allowing vampires to spread northward.
Vampire bats, that is.
Scientists Warn Vampire Bats May Soon Spread Into The Southern US
""What we found was that the distribution of vampire bats has moved northward across time due to past climate change, which has corresponded with an increase in rabies cases in many Latin American countries," Van de Vuurst says." ...
"These findings help link climate change with range shift in vampire bats, they report, "in tandem with continental-level changes in the risk of RABV [rabies virus] spillover from wildlife to domestic animals." |
| Not scary at all |
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