Oct 30, 2012

CLIMATE CHANGE: Mapping the health connection

CLIMATE CHANGE: Mapping the health connection:
JOHANNESBURG, 30 October 2012 (IRIN) - Countries could save countless lives and greatly reduce health costs if forewarned about climate-sensitive infectious disease outbreaks months in advance: and that is becoming a possibility, according to the Atlas of Health and Climate, a report mapping the links between climate and diseases like cholera, malaria, dengue fever and diarrhoea.

Full-text of report - http://www.wmo.int/ebooks/WHO/Atlas_EN_web.pdf

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