How Heat Kills — VOA Learning English
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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.
As temperatures and humidity rise outside, what happens inside the human body can become a life or death situation. And a difference of just a few degrees can mean living or dying.
Researchers say the danger point outdoors for illness and death from ongoing heat is lower than experts once thought. This discovery comes from new information, including putting people in “hot boxes” to see what happens to them. We will talk about this process later in the story.
At rest, the body’s core temperature is about 37 degrees Celsius. That is only 4 degrees Celsius away from possible death from heatstroke.
Several doctors and other experts…
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