date:Oct 30, 2018
ming rate. Researchers from the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute in New York discovered that the number of children who are allergic to peanuts increased from one in 250 children in 1997 to one in 70 in 2008.
It really is almost an epidemic, Dr. Scott Sicherer, the institute's director, told CNBC. It's impossible to deny an increase, even with anecdotal reports from school nurses, he said, adding that about two (children) per classroom have food allergies. It's not just our imagination.
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