Tick and Mosquito-Borne Illness on the Rise in US

(Originally Aired: 5/7/2018) Guest: Sankar Swaminathan, M.D., Don Merrill Rees Presidential Endowed Chair, Professor of Medicine and Chief of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine Last spring, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report showing cases of tick and mosquito-borne illness like Lyme Disease, West Nile Virus and dengue fever had tripled in the US over the last decade. What does that mean for us?