Climate change threatens to undo 50 years of community health

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limate change poses such a threat to public health it risks undoing the gains of the last 50 years, a major study has found.

The Lancet Commission on climate change and health has found the threat continues to be underestimated, but that tackling it could be a huge opportunity to improve global health.

"The effects of climate change are being felt today, and future projections represent an unacceptably high and potentially catastrophic risk to human health," said the report published in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet.

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