India, Aug. 14 -- The relation between warmer and wetter weather and diarrhoea has been well established in other parts of the world
Scientists working through the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a scientific branch of the National Institutes of Health in the United States, have linked climate change to increased occurrences of diarrhoea in young children in Tamil Nadu .
The researchers studied 25 villages outside of Tiruchirappalli, which is 322 kilometres south of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, and confined the subjects of their study to children five-years-old and younger. The study lasted over two years.
The researchers found that the prevalence of childhood diarrhoea was close to three times higher during the hottest we...