Reframing pollution as Illness.

"We often think about asthma in terms of allergies ...

Asthma is an inflammatory disease causing wheezing, coughing and laboured breathing that can be life threatening. In some countries as many as 30 per cent of children develop the condition, according to the World Health Organisation."

Yep and those countries just happen to be countries like china ... pumping out those nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxides and hydrogen sulfides... those well known respiratory irritants ... that stuff that was prominent in mustard gas. But now it is driving economic growth ...

Gene research like this is very simple correlational stuff ... it really is not worthy of reporting. An inflammatory reaction of the respiratory tract is quite simply and replicably an artefact of particulate matter i.e. dirty air... so don't live next to a highway, in the Hawkes Bay, or near either a vineyard nor organic pip fruit orchard ... that is if you want to reach a 'ripe old age.'