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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i'm aware of the peanut allergy, but to say "many people in the world who can be killed by a single peanut" is quite an exaggeration. more importantly, nut allergies have been linked to mass psychogenic illness: hysterical reactions grossly out of proportion to the level of danger. http://christakis.med.harvard.edu/pd...s/misc/023.pdf |
That depends on your definition of 'many.' When it comes to the death of otherwise healthy children, many doesn't need to be a five digit number. Estimates are that 100-200 people die each year from food allergies in the US. Not get sick, not get a belly ache... actually die. Here are some of them listed by name:
http://nonutsmomsgroup.weebly.com/1/...allergies.html
That number is a tiny fraction of the people who do get sick or have lesser reactions, or are saved by an Epi-Pen and ER care.... and an even smaller fraction of the total number of people who have allergies but managed to avoid an event in a given year.
All of the above only illustrates the most severe reason to buy something like this. If they get it to work and can patent it to prevent copycats, it will become a 9 figure payday for someone.
