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• Allergy Planet

  

  We are in the grip of an allergy epidemic. 50 years ago one in 30 were affected, but in Britain today it is closer to one in three. Why this should be is one of modern medicine’s greatest puzzles. In search of answers, Horizon travels round the globe, from the remotest inhabited island to the polluted centres of California and the UK.We meet sufferers and the scientists who have dedicated their lives trying to answer the mystery of why we are becoming allergic to our world.

  
  

3 Responses to “Allergy Planet”

1. derrick says:

   October 14, 2009 at 2:05 am

   my cats breath smells like cat food

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2. allisson says:

   October 18, 2009 at 8:31 pm

   my cats breath smells like animal carcas. But hes cute, so i forgive him

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3. mu says:

   November 17, 2009 at 10:30 pm

   So, is our fear-based obsession with sterile environments leaving us with bored immune systems that turn on us? The obsession with sterile environments is also wasting our best antibiotics, anti-bacterial soaps and such just breed more resistant bacteria.

   Maybe a comparison between allergy and asthma rates between sterile urban environments and "dirty" rural environments would shed some light on this.

   My cats' breath smells like cat food right after they eat and carcass later on.

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