If you are one of the millions of Australians who suffer from an
allergy, you will understand how miserable and unpleasant an allergic reaction can be. It is estimated that around 4.1 million Australians have an
allergy of some sort, a figure which represents almost a fifth of our population.
Of these 4.1 million individuals, each has an average of 1.74
allergies, which means there are around 7.2 million cases of allergic diseases shared among the population. These figures illustrate just how serious Australia’s allergy problem really is; in fact, the ASCIA-Access Economics Report estimates that Australia and New Zealand have the highest prevalence of
allergies in the developed world.
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