date:Nov 13, 2012
c health officials might just mean more cases are getting properly diagnosed and reported. Rising ocean and air temperatures, however, were likely factors. Sea-surface temperatures were the highest ever recorded in the region this year, and the region has seen some of the warmest mean air temperatures in recorded history.
Another microbiologist told the Times that there was not enough evidence to assume rising temperatures contributed to recent illnesses.
In 2010, the U.S. Centers for Disease