Study tracks Arctic animals’ exposure to disease better known in Interior Alaska: tularemia
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on November 22, 2022
A polar bear rests in a field on Barter Island in 2016. Polar bears in the Southern Beaufort Sea population are spending more time on land as sea ice diminishes, and studies indicate that they are becoming more exposed to terrestrial disease pathogens. A newly published USGS-led study calculates exposure of polar bears and other animals on the Arctic coastline to the bacterium that causes tularemia, a tick-borne disease more commonly found in Interior Alaska. (Photo by Cordell Johnson/U.S. Geological Survey)
A wide variety of Arctic animals including polar bears are being exposed to a . . .
