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The risk of death was found to rise in the wake of an extreme rainfall event, including death due to heart and lung conditions, according to a study...
With climate change making short-term rainfall events more extreme and frequent, there is emerging evidence that suggests a compelling link between these events and their adverse effects on health, especially the spread of infectious diseases, researchers said based on a study of over 62,000 rainfall events across the globe...
The study by the team, including researchers from German Research Centre for Environmental Health, provides a global perspective of how extreme rainfall events can impact health, they said.. They looked at the data of daily deaths and rainfall from 645 locations from across 34 countries and regions, recorded from 1980 to 2020..
A day of extreme rainfall, that could likely recur over the following five years, was linked with an eight per cent increase in deaths due to any cause over the 14 days following the extreme weather event...
Daily rainfall intensity is associated with varying health effects, with extreme events linked to an increasing relative risk for all cause, cardiovascular, and respiratory mortality..
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