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Desalegn Markos Shifti, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Child Health Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland

First Nations Australians are more likely to present to hospital with asthma and allergies – new research

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Australia is often called the allergy capital of the world. Allergic diseases – such as allergic asthma, hay fever, eczema and food allergies – affect almost one in five people. And this figure is expected to rise in the years to come.

An allergy happens when the body’s immune system mistakenly reacts to certain foods or other substances as if they were dangerous.

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