Thursday, 4 August 2016

Barnyard Dust Offers a Clue to Stopping Asthma in Children

Barnyard Dust Offers a Clue to Stopping Asthma in Children

Scientists say they may have found a sort of magic ingredient to prevent asthma in children: microbes from farm animals, carried into the home in dust. The results of their research, published on Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, were so convincing that they raised the possibility of developing a spray to do the same thing for children who do not have regular contact with cows and horses. It is a pressing problem because as many as 10.6 percent of grade-school children have asthma...

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