Canadian wildfires sparked signficant rise in U.S. asthma related cases --CDC

Asthma-related ER visits in the US were 17% higher than expected during Canadian wildfires, new CDC study finds | CNN The wildfires in Canada, which caused smoke to blanket parts of the United States in recent months, have been linked to a significant rise in emergency hospital visits related to asthma. Jacqueline Howard CNN

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From April through August, smoke originating from wildfires in Canada affected most of the neighboring regions of the United States. During that time, millions of people in the US were under air quality alerts as smoke swept through the Midwest and East Coast.

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