Kenyan scientists push for cleaner water to curb climate-linked disease

Aug 24, 2010

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Reuters AlertNet, August 2010

Research conducted jointly by KEMRI and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control suggests that waterborne diseases like diarrhoea, typhoid and cholera will overtake malaria as the country's biggest health problem by 2020 as climate change brings more extreme weather, including droughts and torrential rain. Because of this, medical scientists and environmental activists are urging the Kenyan government to speed up efforts to tackle climate-related diseases.

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