These diseases, ranging from dengue fever and malaria to West Nile virus and yellow fever, are the cause of millions of deaths worldwide, yet control methods have become a dilemma due to the development of resistance by mosquitoes and increased concern about health and environmental hazards.
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But it said potential risks included public health hazards and environmental damage, disruption during construction, long term use of land, and an impact on the community from changes to the environment, property values and tourism.
Otherwise the national government will continue to expand turf over telecommunications, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, nanotechnology, energy, banking, health care, hiring, environmental hazards and much else.
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China will have to do something about it or risk increasing environmental hazards that eventually lead to health crises in this aging population of 1.3 billion.
"Environmental and health research overly focuses on well-know rather than unknown hazards at the expense of emerging issues and their potential impacts, " they concluded.
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