Cornell Experts Connect Human Health, Climate Change and a Possible Disease Outbreak in NYC (Journalist-Only Event on May 8)
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 11:31
in Health & Medicine
(Journalists-only luncheon) Consider the environment's connection to human health, when Cornell professors Drew Harvell and Laura Harrington explain how their research has revealed the impact of climate change on our own health and well-being. In fact with the right conditions, New York City could face this summer a new, serious disease - chikungunya - which is carried by mosquitoes.
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