local disasters. Location by zip code of the 800,000 people displaced by Hurricane Katrina (Kent 2006)

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Among the many potential impacts on human health, from smoke inhalation tied to wildfires to the mental health impacts caused by those more intense, more frequent natural disasters, we have this projection of note: three climate factors -- temperature, precipitation and humidity -- together influence development of the Lyme disease bacterium and the ticks that host it. Projected changes in tick habitat (Brownstein et al. 2005)

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