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Out of the entire study period, there were 19 days when wildfire smoke impacted US air quality. On these days, asthma-related ER visits surged by 17%.
The wildfires in Canada, which caused smoke to blanket parts of the United States in recent months, have been linked to a significant rise in emergency hospital visits related to asthma.
(CNN) — Wildfires in Canada that caused smoke to blanket parts of the United States in recent months were linked to a significant rise in emergency<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/asthma-related-er-visits-in-the-us-were-17-higher-than-expected-during-canadian-wildfires-new-cdc-study-finds/">Read More</a>
(CNN) — Dangerous air quality and hazy skies persist from Des Moines, Iowa, to Washington, DC, as smoke from Canada’s raging wildfires drifts south — with more than 120 million