How climate change is making the world sick

By Gloria Dickie DUBAI(Reuters) - Heat stress. Lung damage from wildfire smoke. The spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes into new regions as temperatures rise. These are just a few of the ways that public health has been impacted and compounded by climate change - a focus for the first time ever at the annual U.N. climate summit COP28. Government ministers are expected to discuss ways they can protect people from climate-driven health threats, which now threaten to undo decades of progress in public health. From 2030, experts expect that just four of these threats - malnutrition, malaria, dia...