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11/3/2019 2:11 pm  #1


Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the USA

Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment
by US Global Change Research Program

As global climate change proliferates, so too do the health risks associated with the changing world around us. Called for in the President’s Climate Action Plan and put together by experts from eight different Federal agencies, The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health: A Scientific Assessment is a comprehensive report on these evolving health risks, including:
Temperature-related death and illness
Air quality deterioration
Impacts of extreme events on human health
Vector-borne diseases
Climate impacts on water-related Illness
Food safety, nutrition, and distribution
Mental health and well-being

07/4/2019 6:48 pm  #2


Re: Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the USA

www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html
"Urgent threat"

Last May, an elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn NY branch of Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. A blood test revealed that he was infected with a newly discovered germ as deadly as it was mysterious. Doctors swiftly isolated him in the intensive care unit.

The germ, a fungus called Candida auris, preys on people with weakened immune systems, and it is quietly spreading across the globe. Over the last five years, it has hit a neonatal unit in Venezuela, swept through a hospital in Spain, forced a prestigious British medical center to shut down its intensive care unit, and taken root in India, Pakistan and South Africa.

Recently C. auris reached New York, New Jersey and Illinois, leading the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to add it to a list of germs deemed “urgent threats.”

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