Daily Grist: WHO says climate change bad for world health!

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At 01:10 PM 4/7/08, you wrote:

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>Look, WHO's Talking

>World Health Organization says climate change bad for world health

>Officials at the World Health Organization used the occasion of World

>Health Day today to stress climate change's negative impacts on human

>health, warning that warming temperatures are already affecting the spread

>of disease. Increased temperatures have slowly expanded the range of

>malaria-carrying mosquitoes into new areas, including South Korea and the

>highlands of Papua New Guinea and Rwanda, and increased flooding of

>communities with poor sanitation has increased cases of cholera by mixing

>drinking water with sewage, among other effects. " The core concern is

>succinctly stated: climate change endangers human health, " said WHO

>Director-General Margaret Chan. " The warming of the planet will be

>gradual, but the effects of extreme weather events -- more storms, floods,

>droughts and heat waves -- will be abrupt and acutely felt. Both trends

>can affect some of the most fundamental determinants of health: air,

>water, food, shelter, and freedom from disease. "

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>sources: Associated Press, Reuters, World Health Organization

 

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