allergies

Before humans even came up with the word “allergy,” they observed how some people would get rashes, sneezes or become sick from different things in their environment.

By E. Kirsten Peters, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – It’s astonishing to think about, but when my grandfather was born one in five children didn’t live to see their fifth birthday, in large part due to endemic and epidemic diseases. Today that’s all changed.