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Yellow Fever And Malaria In The US? With Climate Crisis, It's Within The Realm Of Possibility

A look at how climate change is exacerbating disease and making public health one of the world's most immediate climate crisis challenges.
A mosquito is examined in Salt Lake City. (Rick Bowmer/AP)

When we talk about climate change, we make projections into the future — the number of degrees that will cause devastation by a certain year or the number of climate refugees we can expect by 2050.

But infectious disease specialists remind us that, as a recent article in Foreign Affairs stated, “Climate Change is Already Killing Us.”

That article detail how climate change is exacerbating disease, making public health one of the world’s most immediate climate challenges.

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