For context it's important to say that local cases of diseases considered to be eliminated do pop up from time to time. But the worry is that outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases will become much more common in the US as temperatures warm due to the #climate crisis.

What is most worrying about the threat #climate poses to health is that our public health infrastructure and policies are backsliding. Instead of investing in the long-term prevention and mitigation of disease outbreaks, we are downscaling, and won't act until its far too late.