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White House Muzzles CDC Chief on Climate Health Impacts

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By Ross Gelbspan
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The White House significantly edited testimony prepared for a Senate hearing on the impact of climate change on health, deleting key portions citing diseases that could flourish in a warmerย climate.

A draft of the testimony submitted for White House review shows that six pages of details about specific disease and other health problems that might flourish if the Earth warms were not delivered at theย hearing.

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