Warmer world unhealthier place for children

WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (AP): Children are growing up in a warmer world that will hit them with more and different health problems than their parents experienced, an international report by doctors said.

With increasing diarrhea diseases, more dangerous heat waves, air pollution and increases in mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever and malaria, man-made global warming is already harming public health around the world, the annual climate change and health report from the medical journal The Lancet said Wednesday.

But the report and its authors said they worry that the future health of the world's youngest people will get even grimmer if emissions of heat-trapping gases aren't curbed.

"A child born today as they go through their lives they are going to be increasingly exposed to more and more harms that I did not experience," said study co-author Dr. Renee Salas, a Boston emergency room physician and professor at Harvard.