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Spotlight on Climate-Related Health Challenges
During a presentation Elizabeth Rojo stopped at a slide listing two names and photos. The two people had recently died working on North Carolina farms in high heat conditions.
With 2.3 million farm workers in the U.S., the state of North Carolina has the sixth largest farmworker community nationwide, said Rojo, a Ph.D. candidate at Duke.
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