‘All kinds of damage’: Blood samples show effects of wildfire smoke on human health (msn.com)
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When the San Francisco Bay Area experienced a record 30 consecutive days of worrisome air quality alerts in August and September, Mary Prunicki began taking blood samples from firefighters.
The sky hadturned orangefrom nearby wildfires.Thousands of firefighterswould spend months battling the blazes, which would eventually scorchmore than 4 million acresand kill 31 people.
And the damage isn’t likely to have stopped there. Prunicki, director of air pollution and health research at Stanford University’sSean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, is studying the blood samples to understand what wildfire…
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