"Climate change: Now it's personal. 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 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 last week."
Don Hopey reports for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 25, 2014.
"Climate Change To Boost Health Problems"
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 05/26/2014
