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Shrinking water bodies can turn drought into disease hotspots or dead ends

Shrinking water bodies can turn drought into disease hotspots or dead endsWorldPing

Prolonged dry spells or droughts can sometimes reduce aquatic diseases, many of which affect people. Yet other times, water scarcity can counterintuitively lead to an uptick in diseases that depend on water.

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