Britain has world's highest rate of children with asthma

  By Andrew Clennell
  17 February 2004

  Britain has the world's highest percentage of
  children aged 13 and 14 who suffer from
  asthma symptoms, a report published today says.

  The findings of the Global Initiative for Asthma
  (Gina) reveal that of children in that age group,
  37 per cent in Scotland, 34 per cent in Wales
  and 30 per cent in England had experienced
  symptoms of asthma in the past year.

  The report says British children are three times
  more likely to suffer asthma than those in
  France, Germany or Italy.

  Britain has one of the highest rates of allergy in
  the world; rates of eczema and asthma have
  doubled in the last 20 years.
 
 The Independent - UK broadsheet

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