Explainer-How climate change is making the world sick

FILE PHOTO: Flames and smoke rise from a line of trees as a wildfire burns at the Dadia National Park on the region of Evros, Greece, September 1, 2023. REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis/File Photo

DUBAI(Reuters) - Heat stress. Lung damage from wildfire smoke. The spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes into new regions as temperatures rise.

These are just a few of the ways that public health has been impacted and compounded by climate change - a focus for the first time ever at the annual U.N. climate summit COP28.