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Physorg: These are the preliminary findings of Sherilee Harper, a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar in Aboriginal People's Health at the University of Guelph, who says that there has been a significant increase in the incidence of diarrhea and vomiting following these weather events.
Harper is undertaking a comparative study of how extreme weather events affect waterborne diseases in the Arctic and in southwestern Uganda--and is finding plenty of similarities between health issues faced by indigenous groups......
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Climate change leads to pollution of indigenous people’s water supplies
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 17th, 2012
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