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International Business Times
International Business Times
Science
Daniel Lawler and Isabelle Cortes

Heat, Disease, Air Pollution: How Climate Change Impacts Health

Air pollution, such as the extremes seen in India's capital New Delhi, are just one way that fossil fuels affect human health (Credit: AFP)

Growing calls for the world to come to grips with the many ways that global warming affects human health have prompted the first day dedicated to the issue at crunch UN climate talks starting next week.

Extreme heat, air pollution and the increasing spread of deadly infectious diseases are just some of the reasons why the World Health Organization has called climate change the single biggest health threat facing humanity.

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