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Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 02:00
Categories: 
Environment [2]
Issue Number: 
278 [3]
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Climate change is to blame for health problems such as increasing epidemics of malaria and water-borne diseases in Africa, heat wave-related deaths in Europe and the high incidence of cerebral-cardiovascular conditions in China, specialists said on Tuesday (14 November 2006) while calling for appropriate public-health responses to tackle the problem.

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Land & Environment [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/environment/38276 [5]

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