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Warming may take malaria to UK: [1]

Climate change could take malaria and other diseases to Britain and trigger more frequent heatwaves that will have huge health impacts, British doctors said. With the exception of Lyme disease, insect-borne diseases are largely unknown in Britain. But global warming could change that in a few decades, according to a report from the British Medical Association (BMA).

Publication Date: 
04/04/2008
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Climate Change [3], Global Warming [4], Climate Impacts [5], Heat Waves [6], Malaria [7]
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