"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.
It’s reasonable to assume the figures could be higher by now.
Health officials and aid workers in developing nations are becoming increasingly worried about how they’re going to cope if the disease burden starts to rise faster."
Thin Lei Win reports for Alertnet (Thomson Reuters Foundation) April 26, 2012.
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