BURLINGTON, Vt. (ABC22/FOX44) – A new study by researchers at the University of Vermont found that Canadian wildfire smoke has worsened asthma symptoms in children.
Research shows that kids in Vermont and New York experienced negative impacts from Canadian wildfire smoke that traveled to our region during summer 2023.
UVM says health records from about 900 people aged three to 21 were analyzed and compared to air quality data. They said that they also compared the summer of 2022, when there wasn’t much smoke in the area, to 2023 and 2024.
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“In 2023 when we couldn’t see New York across the lake, a lot of Vermonters began to worry about wildfire smoke,” says Anna Maassel, a UVM Ph.D. candidate and the study’s lead author…