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"Your whole body is affected," said Yang Liu, Professor of Environmental Health at Emory University in Atlanta. In a study published in January 2026, Yang Liu and other researchers found that repeated ...
For decades, firefighters facing some of the state’s most destructive wildfires worked without proper masks or respirators, despite evidence showing long-term health risks from wildfire smoke. That’s ...