Study: Climate Change will Exacerbate Respiratory Diseases

A new study suggests that as the Earth gets warmer, the danger of respiratory disease in humans increase. The higher temperature by itself doesn’t make a person more likely to get sick with diseases such as asthma, allergies, bronchitis, and other infections of that degree. The problem will come from the increase in ground level ozone in urban areas, higher particulate matter in drought-stricken areas, and the ranges of communicable disease expanding into the higher latitudes. All those are factors that will lead to more humans becoming sick. Respiratory diseases may grow exponentially during climate-change related to events such as heat waves or bad air pollution days. During those moments that some populations will need the most help unless we prepare now.

From: David A Gabel, ENN

Published March 15, 2012 01:58 PM

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