BBC NEWS | Americas | Children die in harsh Peru winter
Almost 250 children under the age of five have died in a wave of intensely cold weather in Peru.AFP: Brown's climate change adviser has swine flu: reports
Children die from pneumonia and other respiratory infections every year during the winter months particularly in Peru's southern Andes.
But this year freezing temperatures arrived almost three months earlier than usual.
Experts blame climate change for the early arrival of intense cold which began in March.
Winter in the region does not usually begin until June.
The extreme cold, which has brought snow, hail, freezing temperatures and strong winds, has killed more children than recorded annually for the past four years.
LONDON (AFP) — A key adviser to Prime Minister Gordon Brown has contracted swine flu and was banned from attending the G8 summit in Italy, reports said late Sunday.
Brown's senior climate change adviser Michael Jacobs is thought to have picked up the flu during a working visit to Mexico where the A(H1N1) virus first appeared, The Times said on its website.
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It takes monumental mental resources to soberly rationalize that freezing cold temperatures are caused by global warming, excuse me climate change. It is way beyond my meger metal capabilitis.
senior climate change adviser Michael Jacobs has swine flu.
How fitting. Only a porker mascarading as an advisor would push climate change. Being under the weather is the only true thing about him.
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