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India Heat Wave Death Toll May Be Vastly Underestimated

2015-05-27 22:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: A heat wave scorching India this week has already killed at least 1,000 people, according to Indian authorities, but that number may be a huge underestimate, one researcher says. It's possible that thousands more have died as a result of the blistering conditions but that their deaths might not have been attributed to the heat wave, said Dr. Gulrez Shah Azhar, a community health researcher and policy analyst at Rand Corp. in Santa Monica, California. Heat waves can be especially harsh on people...

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