Fair Home, Feb. 10, 2009 Changes in the Earth's climate are worrying scientists about an increase in arboviruses. These worries are expressed in a paper co-written by UTMB's Stephen Higgs in the February edition of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Higgs warns that infection further away can occur if global warming continues as some scientists argue it will, and that readiness for this spread is needed.