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Hay fever season has returned with the first pollen bomb of the year set to drop on the UK. The Met Office issued its first ‘high’ pollen alert on Tuesday, which covers most of England and Wales .
A pollen count is a measurement of the number of pollen grains in a given volume of air. Pollen counts, and forecasts of pollen conditions, are routinely produced and reported to the public because high aerial pollen concentration is associated with increased rates of allergic reaction for those with conditions such as hay fever and asthma .
The allergic diseases—hay fever and asthma—have increased in the Western world over the past 2–3 decades. [141] Increases in allergic asthma and other atopic disorders in industrialized nations, it is estimated, began in the 1960s and 1970s, with further increases occurring during the 1980s and 1990s, [ 142 ] although some suggest that a ...
Allergic rhinitis, of which the seasonal type is called hay fever, is a type of inflammation in the nose that occurs when the immune system overreacts to allergens in the air. [6] It is classified as a type I hypersensitivity reaction . [ 8 ]
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The proclamation by Newsom, a Democrat, allows the state to streamline and expedite resources to address the rapid spread of bird flu across the state, his office said in a news release.
Bostock was a son of Dr. John Bostock, Sr. [2] He spent some time at New College at Hackney where he attended Joseph Priestley's lectures on chemistry and natural philosophy, [3] before graduating in Medicine at the University of Edinburgh [4] and practising medicine in Liverpool.