Breaking: For people who can't retreat to a nice warm hot tub in their nice warm mansion, cold weather is more dangerous than warm weather

Approach of winter complicates Pakistan flood relief

"Snow begins as early as October in parts of the north," said Dr. Qamar Zaman, medical coordinator for PDA partner Church World Service Pakistan-Afghanistan. "Winter is approaching, and with freezing temperatures there are a greater number of cases of lower respiratory tract infection."

In addition to respiratory infections, poor nutrition and food shortages put more people — especially children and the elderly — at risk of death this winter.