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Study connects climate hazards to 58% of infectious diseases

The Associated Press · Seth Borenstein · last updated

Climate hazards, such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and even anthrax.

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