Wildfires are bigger, more severe and more common today in the western United States than at any time in the last four decades, with Maui, Hawaii's devastating blaze being just the latest tragic example. In California, nearly half of the state's largest fires on record occurred in the past three years. We asked UC San Francisco professors of medicine Arianne Teherani , PhD, and Sheri Weiser , MD, why wildfire smoke is particularly bad for your health. Teherani and Weiser cofounded UCSF's Center for Climate, Health and Equity as an education and research hub to shape climate action by ensuring health systems respond to the climate crisis.

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