Will Climate Change Bring New Diseases To Northwest?

By Kristian Foden-Vencil | April 17, 2008 11:54 a.m. | Updated: June 17, 2010 12:03 a.m. | Portland, OR

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Doctor Mel Kohn, the state epidimiologist at the Oregon Public Health Division, has raised the specter of new diseases turning up here as the climate changes.

He held a panel recently with politicians, county health department experts and other public health policy wonks, to discuss the issue. I asked him why?

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