Climate Conversations - Will climate change tip poor nations' health systems over the edge?

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from AlertNet
Published on 26 Apr 2012 View Original

By Thin Lei Win

Killer health problems such as diarrhoea, malnutrition, malaria and dengue are highly sensitive to climate change and could worsen in the coming decades, health experts agree. But how, where and to what extent remains unclear.

More than 140,000 lives lost per year - that’s the number of excess deaths global warming since the 1970s was causing by 2004, according to the World Health Organisation.

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