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New Delhi: A new study has estimated around 8.5 lakh deaths between 2000 and 2020 among children aged under five linked with an exposure to tropical cyclones across 34 low- and middle-income countries.

As the planet continues to warm, extreme weather events such as cyclones are expected to intensify and become more common, with poorer, tropical countries projected to experience the worst effects.

Researchers in China’s Fudan University found significant links between deaths among under-fives and being exposed to a cyclone in the three months prior, with symptoms of diarrhoea contributing to mortality.

The analysis, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, revealed a “significant positive association between cyclone exposure within the past three months before disease and diarrhoe

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