heat deaths

How does heat kill? It confuses your brain, overworks your heart, shuts down your organs

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As temperatures and humidity soar outside, what’s happening inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees. The critical danger point outdoors for illness and death from relentless heat is several degrees lower than experts once thought, say researchers who put people in hot boxes to see what happens … Read more

Dutch visitor dies on Greek island, 4 foreign tourists missing

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athens, greece —  A missing Dutch tourist was found dead early Saturday on the eastern Greek island of Samos, local media reported, the latest in a string of recent cases in which tourists in the Greek islands have died or gone missing. Some, if not all, had set out on hikes in blistering hot temperatures. … Read more