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Health & Wellness News tagged with global warming

West Nile May Spread More Easily Due to Climate Change
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, disease, environment, global warming, study, news )

Cal
- 250 days ago - blogs.usatoday.com
Better stock up on bug juice, preferably with lots of DEET. West Nile Virus is on the way, and it's getting worse. Climate change appears to promote the virus's transmission to humans.
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How Meat Contributes to Global Warming
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, global warming )

Cal
- 304 days ago - enn.com
Pound for pound, beef production generates greenhouse gases that contribute more than 13 times as much to global warming as do the gases emitted from producing chicken. For potatoes, the multiplier is 57.
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WHO Faces Up to Climate Change in Sixtieth Anniversary Year
Health & Wellness  (tags: World Health Organisation, WHO, climate change, Second World War, AIDS, SARS, bird flu, public health, global warming, pollen seasons, malaria, cholera, malnutrition, heatstroke, allergies, heat waves, urban poor )

LL
- 600 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Turning sixty is usually a time to start winding down and think of retirement, but the World Health Organisation is using this milestone as a spur to its greatest challenge yet--climate change. The WHO was born in the shadow of the Second World War on Apr
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Asia Will Bear Brunt of Climate Change-Linked Deaths: WHO
Health & Wellness  (tags: Asia, Pacific, diseases, climate change, WHO, World Health, organisation, bird flu, malaria, diarrhoea, malnutrition, health crises, global warming )

LL
- 600 days ago - news.yahoo.com
More than half the annual estimated 150,000 deaths linked to climate change will come from the Asia-Pacific region, officials at the World Health Organisation said Monday. Most of the fatalities will be the result of a greater incidence of diseases such
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Flesh Eating Bacteria on the Rise
Health & Wellness  (tags: Rise of Leishmaniasis, flesh-eating bacteria, global warming, spreading health, treatment )

Jennie
- 836 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Should global warming continue to ravage our planet at current rates, the numbers of people suffering Leishmaniasis, a flesh-eating and sometimes fatal disease will increase dramatically, experts warn.
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Global Warming Could Increase U.S. Death Rate
Health & Wellness  (tags: environment, health, global warming )

Cal
- 880 days ago - reuters.com
An increase in summertime heat waves from global warming could mean more deaths among Americans each year, a study by Harvard researchers suggests.
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