The Dose24:44How do atmospheric pollutants affect my health, especially around wildfire smoke?
It’s been an early start to the wildfire season in Canada, with more than one million hectares burned in Alberta alone and thousands of people forced to evacuate their homes across Western Canada and in parts of the Maritimes.
Wildfire smoke has also been affecting air quality for millions of people in this country, causing short-term health effects such as burning eyes, sore throat, cough and headache.
If you have an underlying respiratory or cardiovascular health condition, you are more at risk.
“I always talk about people with chronic respiratory diseases like asthma and COPD as the canaries in the coal
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