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Look, WHO's Talking
World Health Organization says climate change bad for world health |
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07 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 6:49 AM on 07 Apr 2008 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 Ne ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, health, news, World Health Organization (all these topics) |
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