UN: global change poses new health risks
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A ballooning world population, intensive farming practices and changes in sexual behavior have provided a breeding ground for an unprecedented number of emerging diseases, the U.N. health agency said Thursday.
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The United Nations warns of food shortages. Hospitals refuse all non-emergency care to avoid running out of medicine. Power outages are widespread, and a lack of fuel for generators threatens water supplies.
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Climate change could have global security implications on a par with nuclear war unless urgent action is taken, a report said on Wednesday.
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To make matters worse in South Asia, the disaster zone is now being threatened with outbreaks of disease. The World Health Organization is warning that if fresh water and medicine
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Extreme weather, drought and spreading disease are on the horizon if something isn't done to rein in the human impact on the environment, a new study says. By the Associated Press.
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The U.N. climate panel is set to issue its strongest warning yet on Friday that human activities are causing a damaging global warming likely to bring more heatwaves, droughts and rising seas.
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Beijing, Sept 14 (PTI) The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned governments, especially those in Asia, that they may face more diseases originating in animals in the future, posing a threat to the health of human beings.
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CAMPAIGNERS hope that shocking statistics on the global epidemic of heart disease and strokes will prompt countries to take action to reduce risks to health.
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The crippling Polio disease has spread to at least one dozen countries in West and Central Africa and is threatening to become an epidemic, the United Nations has said.
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A sweeping new global report, released by the World Health Organization today in New York City, urges governments to get tough on the tobacco epidemic before it's too late
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TORONTO (CP) - A United Nations report says Canada will have to change its strategy for battling forest fires because climate change is causing larger, more intense blazes.
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Environmental degradation is affecting health, nutrition and the natural world, says a flagship UN report.
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Findings of UN panel on global warming put African and Asian regions among those most at risk.
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EMMA ALBERICI: United Nations officials fear the death toll could double as outbreaks of disease unleash a second wave of tragedy.
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The AIDS pandemic rampaging around the globe will not be stopped without radical social change to improve the lot of women and girls, who now look likely to die in greater numbers than men, UN agencies said on Tuesday.
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The World Health Organization warned in a new report Thursday that the "tobacco epidemic" is growing and could claim 1 billion lives by the end of the century unless governments dramatically step up efforts to curb smoking.
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Climate change poses as much danger to the world as war, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday as he urged the United States to take the lead in the fight against global warming.