Doctors warn of risks of climate change for the first time

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Climate change is the biggest health threat facing doctors this century, the first medical assessment of the dangers of global warming has warned. Until now the medical profession has not taken a position on climate change, considering issues such as world poverty, HIV and bird flu to be more pressing threats to human health.
However, a study by the University College London, published in the Lancet, concluded that the problems caused by climate change such as food shortages, heat waves and increased threat of tropical diseases such as malaria will kill billions of people.

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