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Nearly All Summer Deaths From This 'Silent' Killer Were Preventable, WHO Says


More than 200,000 lives have been lost to the "silent killer" of heat in Europe since 2022, the World Health Organization said Thursday, after a heatwave saw some countries record their highest-ever May temperatures.

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