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To: TaraP
...peanut allergy is the most common cause of food-related death, but this tragic event is very rare, affecting approximately one per 830,000 children with food allergy every year. The prevalence of peanut allergy is about 1percent — this incidence appears to be on the rise, but the perception of allergy even where it doesn’t truly exist is rising even faster.

http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/tag/peanut-allergy/

17 posted on 02/16/2009 10:41:38 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Pro-Life Capitalist American Atheist and Free-Speech Junkie)
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To: Darkwolf377

” but this tragic event is very rare, affecting approximately one per 830,000 children with food allergy every year. The prevalence of peanut allergy is about 1percent — “

Must be ‘new math’....

I don’t see how the author derives that 1% number fro 1 in 830,000......


28 posted on 02/16/2009 10:48:48 AM PST by Uncle Ike (At some point, government has to be the next bubble to burst. (H/T Freeper This_far))
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