Hello and welcome to Health Check from the BBC.
I'm Claudia Hammond,
here for the next half an hour with the latest health news from around the world.
In a moment after the UN Secretary General says it's now inevitable that global warming will pass 1.5 degrees,
we ask what higher temperatures mean for us humans.
And could some urine retract infections be caused by eating contaminated meat?
And joining me for the whole show from Germany today is health journalist and author Lyle Liverpool.
How are you?
I'm very well, thank you.
And what do you have for us today?
Today I'll be looking at what funding cuts might mean for the fight against polio.
And we all know that walking is good for us,
but is there a difference for health between taking one longer walk or a few shorter ones
if you walk the same number of steps?
But we are starting today with Climate Change.
A new major report published today finds that one person a minute is being killed by rising heat.
And on Tuesday,
the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says there will be devastating consequences
because it's now inevitable that will rise by at least 1.5 degrees.
The ninth annual Lancet countdown is the most comprehensive report assessing the links between climate change and health.