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Thunderstorm asthma: who's at risk and how to manage it

  • Written by Janet Davies, Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
imageHay fever sufferers should have access to an asthma puffer every spring, even if they've never had asthma symptoms.from www.shutterstock.com

Late in the afternoon of a hot spring day, November 21, 2016, a thunderstorm from the northwest swept over Geelong and Melbourne, triggering the world’s most devastating thunderstorm asthma epidemic.

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