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Climate change turns up risk of heat stroke for farmworkers

August 1, 2022
By Ricardo A Vela
The death of a farmworker on May 14, 2005, east of Stockton, California, highlighted the sufferings of day laborers during the summer. Mara Isabel Vsquez Jimnez, originally from Oaxaca, Mexico, 17 years old and two months pregnant, worked in a vineyard in temperatures above 95 degrees.
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