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The researchers calculated that humans and most mammals, which have internal body temperatures near 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, will experience a potentially lethal level of heat stress at wet - bulb temperature above 95 degrees sustained for six
hours or more, said Matthew Huber, the Purdue professor of
earth and atmospheric sciences who co-authored the paper that is currently available online and will be published in an
upcoming issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....