The Harvard researchers focused on a tiny, troublesome air pollutant that comes primarily from vehicles, power plants and wildfires.
BY NEELA BANERJEE
A new Harvard University study for the first time links hospitalizations for common blood, skin and kidney ailments to short-term exposure to fine particulate matter from fossil fuel combustion and wildfires.
The findings widen the population of older Americans considered especially vulnerable to threats from the air pollutant even when exposed to it over short periods.
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