"Nut Allergy" Fear and Overreaction
Good article: Professor Nicolas Christakis, a professor of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School, told the BMJ there was "a gross over-reaction to the magnitude of the threat" posed by food allergies, and particularly nut allergies. In the US, serious allergic reactions to foods cause just 2,000 of more than 30 million hospitalisations a year and comparatively few deaths -- 150 a year from all food allergies combined. In the UK there are around 10 deaths each year from food allergies. Prof[...]