Article 19ATV Climate change threat to public health worse than polio, White House warns

Climate change threat to public health worse than polio, White House warns

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Suzanne Goldenberg
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Obama administration report details the diversity of risks and claims global warming is a far more challenging danger than polio virus in some cases

Climate change poses a serious danger to public health - worse than polio in some respects - and will strike especially hard at pregnant women, children, low-income people and communities of color, an authoritative US government report warned on Monday.

The report, The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment, formally unveiled at the White House, warned of sweeping risks to public health from rising temperatures in the coming decades - with increased deaths and illnesses from heat stroke, respiratory failure and diseases such as West Nile virus.

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