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If you live in Florida, doctors say climate change is already affecting your health

| 2/13/2018

If you live in Florida, doctors say climate change is already affecting your health

Doctors in Florida say the changing climate is a public health risk, one they already see in their waiting rooms right now. Now, some clinicians have formed a new group to sound the alarm. They want to educate people and policymakers about the dangers of a hotter, more humid world, and the risks to their most vulnerable patients. [Source: Miami Herald]

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