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Media Release October 19, 2010 from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center An estimated 2.5 percent of Americans – 7.5 million people – have at least one food allergy and young black children with asthma appear to be at the highest risk, according to findings from what is believed to be the largest food allergy study [...]

With so many more people affected by food allergies today than in the past, everyone wants to know: what is causing food allergy? And, perhaps even more at issue for new parents: is there a way to prevent it in my child? How does allergy develop? When a baby is born, the child’s immune system [...]