The Peanut Allergy Epidemic
1.4% of US children, about 1 million, have a life threatening allergy to peanut. In researching causes, doctors have dismissed precedents for mass allergic phenomena such as serum sickness. This post-vaccinal illness in children prompted the creation of new words c.1900 to describe its symptoms: allergy, anaphylaxis. Historical evidence, from peanut oil in penicillin to the allergy inducing effects of aluminum in vaccines implicates injection as the primary mechanism in this allergy epidemic.
Heather Fraser, MA, BA, BEd
Heather Fraser, MA, BA, B. Ed is a Toronto-based writer and the mother of a peanut/nut allergic child. She is the author of The Peanut Allergy Epidemic (NY, Skyhorse Publishing, 2011).
Date/Time:
Fri, 05/27/2011 - 11:15am - 12:15pm
Room:
Lilac B/D 
