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Wildfire Smoke Kills Tens of Thousands of People a Year. Here’s How It Attacks the Body

(AP) – Smoke from wildfires — which are burning more of the Northern Hemisphere as Earth warms — attacks nearly every system in the human body, killing tens of thousands of people a year, numerous medical studies show. It attacks the body immediately, spiking asthma cases with increased ambulance runs within hours, swamps emergency rooms

Published July 17, 2026 · 10:30 AM

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