2008Feb12: About 20,000 people die each year of cold-related deaths in the UK, according to a report prepared by a panel of scientific experts commissioned by the UK Department of Health and Health Protection Agency (BBC, 2008).
Reference: BBC. 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7240463.stm
Image Description: UK houses. Photo by Lcarsdata, 2007Feb08. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Houses_during_February_2007_UK_snow.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License.
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