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Tue 02 Feb 2010Disease peril from global warming
AN EXPERT on the effects climate change has on public health has warned that countries such as Ireland could be at risk from tropical diseases such as malaria and dengue fever in the future.
Prof Mike Gill, co-chairman of the British Climate and Health Council, said projected rises in temperatures would see diseases migrate north and allow parasites arriving in imported fruit to thrive and infect the general population.
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