CTV Winnipeg: How wildfire smoke is impacting youth sports in Winnipeg
July 31, 2025 —
Andrew Halayko, a research chair in lung pathobiology and treatment at the University of Manitoba, says children may be more vulnerable to wildfire smoke than adults.
“With a perhaps undeveloped immune system, they haven’t seen the exposures you have as an adult and built up some of the resistance,” Halayko explained.
He says the university has received funding for a lab to study the long-term health impacts of car exhaust and wildfire smoke.
“We already have generations of the population that have been exposed to bad air and we don’t know what’s coming decades from now.”
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