Climate change to boost health problems
- Abstract
There will be more itching, sneezing, swelling and gasping for breath as Pennsylvania’s climate shifts and residents are exposed to more poison ivy, stinging insects, pollen allergies and lyme-disease-bearing ticks, and experience increased asthma, respiratory disease and heat-related deaths. That was the assessment of scientists and physicians at a one-day climate change conference sponsored by the Allegheny County Health Department and the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health.
- Resource Type
- Magazine/newspaper article
- Author
- Don Hopey
- Resource URL
- http://www.post-gazette.com/news/environment/2014/05/26/Climate-change-to-boost-health-problems/stories/201405260078
- Publication
- Pittsburg Post-Gazette
- Date
- May 25, 2014
- Organization Type
- News
- Health and Human Impact
- Overview/general
- Climate and Environmental Impact
- Overview/general
- GHG
- Overview/general
- Solution
- Climate mitigation/GHG reduction
- Region
- Northeast