Heat Wave: A Major Summer Killer

NOAA NWS · 2 pages

Cities Pose Special Hazards Know These Heat Disorder Symptoms The stagnant atmospheric conditions of the heat wave trap pollutants in urban areas and add the HEAT stresses of severe pollution to the already dangerous DISORDER SYMPTOMS FIRST AID* stresses of hot weather, creating a health problem of undiscovered dimensions. A map of heat-related SUNBURN Redness and pain. In severe Ointments for mild cases if blisters appear and do deaths in St. Louis during 1966, for example, cases swelling of sk

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