California to study heat-wave deaths
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California public health officials said Thursday they will conduct a statistical study of deaths from last summer's heat wave to determine whether the number of victims is higher than officially reported.
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Utilities urged customers to ease up on electricity use and officials opened cool shelters as California continued to swelter under a heat wave Friday.
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Last year, 27 cases of the disease were linked to the baths, and three people died as a result. Dr Susanne Surman-Lee, who led a study for the Health Protection Agency, said that out of 88 spa pools examined
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California will become hotter and drier by the end of the century, menacing the valuable wine and dairy industries, even if dramatic steps are taken to curb global warming, researchers said on Monday.
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BUCHAREST, Romania -- Four more Romanians have died from a heat wave gripping parts of southeast Europe, health officials said yesterday, raising the region's death toll from the past few days to at least 30.
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Police are investigation the case of a baby who died after being sent home from hospital with Calpol.
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A heat wave has killed 64 people in France, a top health official said Thursday. The scorching temperatures, which have lasted about two weeks and prompted a nationwide heat-relief plan, have recalled memories of a 2003 heat wave in which 15,000 people, mostly elderly, died.
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Californians sweated through soaring temperatures even at beaches Monday as much of the state ended the long Labor Day weekend in the grips of a record-setting heat wave.
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The death toll from Romania&#39;s heat  wave rose to 15 on Sunday after six more people died in the  Black Sea country where temperatures hovered around 40 degrees  Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), Health Minister Eugen Nicolaescu  said.
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The state appeared to break out of its nearly two-week heat wave Friday, but not before it caused as many as 141 deaths and did untold damage to crops.
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California again urged customers to conserve power as businesses reopened, after the U.S. Independence Day holiday, on Thursday, the third day of the first big heat wave of the summer to hit the West.
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Forty people have died in a heat wave that has gripped France for nearly two weeks, health officials said Tuesday.
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In the third day of summer's first heat wave, California again urged power conservation as businesses reopened on Thursday after the U.S. Independence Day holiday.
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A sixth Southern Californian, the third in Los Angeles County, has died of the West Nile virus, and officials warned Thursday that most victims of the disease have developed other, more serious illnesses, including encephalitis and meningitis.
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Pollution from the construction industry led to the deaths of more than 1,100 people in California in 2005, a report released on Tuesday by the Union of Concerned Scientists said.
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Global warming could cause dramatically hotter summers and a depleted snow pack in California, leading to a sharp increase in heat-related deaths and jeopardizing the water supply, according to a study released Monday.
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Heat waves, a scarcity of water and mountain forests dying because of heat are parts of a picture of California at the end of the century being painted by a team of 19 scientists in a new paper published by the National Academy of Sciences.