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The fact that mortality has decreased during a time when the incidence of diabetes, cancer, heat disease, and HIV has increased strongly suggests, to me at least, that the Russian health system is functioning better than it used to.
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Increased heat stress and disease (as insects flourish in the mild winters) will destroy more and more forests, and less CO2 uptake occurs.
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In many remote villages, volunteers dug bodies from the wreckage and buried them in mass graves without proper religious ceremonies, fearing the spread of disease in the summer heat.
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Most were interred in mass graves or doused with petrol and burned because of the fear of disease spreading in the tropical heat.
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As the disease tends to peak in the heat of June and July, health authorities say that more cases are likely.
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It can control heat and odor -- and even fight disease.
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The large and growing cohort of diabetics in this country will drive major increases to overall healthcare costs due to treating the downstream consequences of this disease including kidney disease, amputations, blindness and heat attacks.
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Another approach effectively steers magnetic nanoparticles toward disease sites where they dump their therapeutic load or else destroy cancerous tissue with heat.
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The report concludes that global warming favours the spread of disease especially if that warming leads to extreme weather events like Hurricane Katrina or the killer heat wave that struck France a few summers ago.
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