Uruguay: CO2 blamed for poor health of hypothermic people living in "overcrowded conditions in precarious dwellings lacking sanitation"

Reuters AlertNet - CLIMATE CHANGE: Uruguay Fends Off Health Threats - So Far

Increasingly frequent spells of extreme weather particularly affect the health of the poorest, who live in overcrowded conditions in precarious dwellings lacking sanitation, in the shantytowns that have sprung up at an exponential rate since the 1990s in the Montevideo metropolitan area. Many of them are on low-lying land exposed to flooding.

Diarrhoea, hepatitis A and leptospirosis are some of the most common illnesses resulting from flooding and inadequate disposal of human waste, the head of the Health Ministry's Environmental and Occupational Health Division, Carmen Ciganda, told IPS.
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In winter, two hospitals in Montevideo, where 40 percent of Uruguayans live, act as sentinel hospitals, monitoring patients with hypothermia and the prevalence of pneumonia and chronic lung diseases.

Uruguay - Climate

Seasons are fairly well defined, and in most of Uruguay spring is usually damp, cool, and windy; summers are warm; autumns are mild; and winters are chilly and uncomfortably damp.