How warmer climates spread disease

A mosquito feeds at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District in Salt Lake City, United States.-AP

LIVING on the edge of wetlands on the Italian island of Sardinia, Anna Rita Cocco is mourning the loss of her elderly father who died in a coma within weeks of a fatal mosquito bite.

“My father was full of life and used to walk for miles each day. I was expecting him to die at some point, but not suffering like that, taken from me by a mosquito,” she said her late father, Bernardino, who died aged 80.