New York Times: In 2004, a rare tropical fungus caused a string of respiratory failures and neural disorders along the Pacific Northwest coast, baffling the health community. That same year, Alaskan cruise ship passengers dining on local oysters fell sick with a gastric virus typically found in warm water estuaries. Now Texas, after an unusually wet spring and dry summer, is battling what may become the country`s worst recorded outbreak of West Nile virus. Meteorological and ecological shifts driven by climate...
URL: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/the-baffling-nexus-of-climate-change-and-health/
Enclosure: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/09/06/blogs/westnile/westnile-blog480.jpg
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