How Heat Waves Can Kill ........pick your poison

[merrill]

Why Extreme Heat Is So Deadly

Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com › article › why-extr...

Jul 22, 2021 — These heat waves pose a major risk to public health. “In an average year in the U.S., heat kills more people than any other type of extreme ...

How extreme heat can kill and how you can stay safe
https://www.cnn.com › 2022/09/06 › health › heat-wav...
Sep 6, 2022 — A person's temperature can rise to a dangerous 106 degrees or higher within just 10 or 15 minutes. This can lead to disability or even death.

How heat kills: What happens to the body in extreme ...
https://www.npr.org › health-shots › 2023/07/23 › here...
Jul 23, 2023 — Of all extreme weather conditions, heat is the most deadly. It kills more people in the U.S. in an average year than hurricanes, ...

 

[merrill]

It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart. As temperatures and humidity soar outside, what's happening inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees.Jun 21, 2024

How does heat kill? It shuts down the brain, body | AP News​

AP News
https://apnews.com › article › deadly-heat-wave-body-c...

 

[Oddball]

 

[Mr Natural]

Given the choice between extreme heat or extreme cold, I’ll take extreme heat any day.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

^^^ What you say here reminds me of that film from the 90s named Forever Young. Mel Gibson's character was in a freezer space for 50 years if my memory serves me well enough, but being in such a place for so long didn't kill him surprisingly. You would think that his character would've died of starvation, but he didn't.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. If a person can live to talk about being frozen, you would still pick the extreme heat? Don't forget that such a horror is how way too many kids have died thanks to those who didn't give a flying flip about them.

 

[whitehall]

Heat kills more people than frostbite. Welcome to the real world.

 

[Leo123]

I like extreme heat when I'm cold and extreme cold when I'm hot. Otherwise I'm good.