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| 40 die from heat wave in France | |
| 2006-07-26 | |
| Haven't we been here before... PARIS - Forty people have died in a heat wave that has gripped France for nearly two weeks, health officials said Tuesday. The government-run Health Institute said officials were to provide a detailed report on heat-related deaths Thursday. To take caire of mon mere and mon pere would have...how you say...screwed up ze vacation. Temperatures have been in the high 90s across much of the country, reaching the low 100s in some southern areas. The hot weather has revived memories of the deadly summer of 2003, when 15,000 people in France died from the heat. Labor Minister Gerard Larches met with officials in the construction industry where employees often work long hours outdoors. In France?
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| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #9 This situation clearly calls for a picture of Martha and the Vandellas wearing berets. |
| Posted by: ryuge 2006-07-26 20:23 |
| #8 #6 SM - I think #5 was right. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-07-26 18:45 |
| #7 Life is beautiful to a certain degree. |
| Posted by: Celsius 2006-07-26 16:41 |
| #6 Er, I mean "solved." |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2006-07-26 15:39 |
| #5 Strike? Heat deaths? How is this possible? I thought that socialized medicine salved ALL of a society's problems. Well, that's what Barbara Boxer told me! |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2006-07-26 15:39 |
| #4 The article fails to mention that there is also a doctors strike going on. Gotta love socialist solidarity. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2006-07-26 12:43 |
| #3 Funny how, in the USA, this would be heaped on the doorstep of the federal government... Not if a Dem was president, like during the Great Chicago Heat Wave of 1995. "In 1995 there were no uniform standards for determining a "heat related death," so officials had to develop them. Edmund Donoghue, Cook County's chief medical examiner, used state-of-the-art criteria to report 465 heat-related deaths for the heat wave week and 521 heat deaths for the month of July....But perhaps the best measure of heat deaths comes from another figure—the "excess death" rate—which counts the difference between the reported deaths and the typical deaths for a given time period. According to this measure, 739 Chicagoans above the norm died during the week of 14 to 20 July—which means that Donoghue had been conservative in his accounts." http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/443213in.html |
| Posted by: Jese Gleresh1086 2006-07-26 10:06 |
| #2 Funny how, in the USA, this would be heaped on the doorstep of the federal government (think Katrina). In France, it's ho-hum, business as usual, 15,000 dead no problemo. |
| Posted by: gromky 2006-07-26 08:36 |
| #1 It's well established that cold weather kills far more people than hot weather. But then that wouldn't fit the Kyoto/AGM meme, so it's not news - aka agiprop peddling. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-07-26 08:14 |