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Scientists Fighting Disease with Climate Forecasts
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WASHINGTON (Associated Press) - A cyclone wrecks coastal Myanmar, spawning outbreaks of malaria, cholera and dengue fever. Flooding inundates Iowa, raising an array of public health concerns. With climate change comes new threats to life, and scientists hope to be able to better predict them as they forecast the weather.
"Everything is connected in our earth system," Conrad C. Lautenbacher, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said at a panel on "Changing Climate: Changing Health Patterns."
The key is bringing all types of data together—health, weather, human behavior, disasters and others—"it's science without borders," Lautenbacher said. He said 73 countries and more than 50 international organizations are currently participating in the Global Earth Observation System of Systems and more are expected to join.
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