Warmer World Risks Extra 9 Million Deaths Annually, WHO Says
- Reaching universal health cover harder as resources stretched
- Risk of mosquito, tick and rat-borne illnesses also increasing
Paramedics help a patient into an ambulance during a heat wave in Barcelona, 2022.
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Rising temperatures could lead to more than 9 million climate-related deaths each year by the end of the century, the World Health Organization said in a report on Friday.
Despite contributing the least historically to global emissions, African countries, poorer nations and small island developing states face the greatest health consequences of climate change, the WHO said.