Model allegedly drowns after suffering asthma attack during underwater photoshoot – Fox News


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Model allegedly drowns after suffering asthma attack during underwater photoshoot
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Olivia Ku, 25, a native of Taipei, was a popular model and amateur diver with at least three years of experience, Central European News (CEN) reported. She drowned after reportedly suffering an asthma attack while underwater. The photoshoot took place
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Study allegedly identifies immunological connection between obesity and asthma – Lexology (registration)

Study allegedly identifies immunological connection between obesity and asthma
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A recent animal study has allegedly identified a new immunological connec- tion between obesity and asthma involving “inflammasome activation and production of cytokine interleukin-17 by innate lymphoid cells in the lung,” according to a concurrent 

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Friends allegedly dump Georgia woman’s body after she suffers asthma attack – Fox News


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Friends allegedly dump Georgia woman's body after she suffers asthma attack
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A Georgia mom says she is searching for answers after her daughter's body was allegedly dumped on the side of the road after the girl died of an apparent asthma attack. MyFoxAtlanta.com reports 20-year-old Taylor Smith was with friends when she
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Florida Woman Allegedly Kidnapped; Escapes Captor By Feigning Asthma – WCTV


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Florida Woman Allegedly Kidnapped; Escapes Captor By Feigning Asthma
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A western New York man has been accused of kidnapping a Florida woman who escaped by feigning asthma, convincing hospital officials not to release her to him and calling a boyfriend to return her to her home state.
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Family Prepares Lawsuit Against Policeman Who Allegedly Let Girl Die In Asthma … – NY1


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Family Prepares Lawsuit Against Policeman Who Allegedly Let Girl Die In Asthma
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A Brooklyn family of an 11-year-old girl who died in a 2010 asthma attack rallied by the borough's State Supreme Court on Thursday to demand that the police officer who allegedly refused to help the dying girl be fired. NY1's Criminal Justice reporter
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Asthma and Gastric Bacterium Helicobacter Pylori

Gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori protects against asthma Says new Study

Infection with the gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori provides reliable protection against allergy-induced asthma, immunologists from the University of Zurich have demonstrated in an animal model together with allergy specialists from the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Their results published in the prestigious Journal of Clinical Investigation confirm the hypothesis recently put forward that the dramatic increase in allergic diseases in industrial societies is linked to the rapid disappearance of specific micro-organisms that populate the human body.

Allergy-induced asthma has been on the increase in the industrialized world for decades and has virtually taken on epidemic proportions. The rapid rise in allergic airway disease is attributed to air pollution, smoking, the hygiene hypothesis and the widespread use of antibiotics. The hygiene hypothesis states that modern hygiene measures have led to a lack of exposure to infectious agents, which is important for the normal maturation of the immune system. In an article published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, scientists from the University of Zurich and the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz now reveal that the increase in asthma could be put down to the specific disappearance of the gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) from Western societies.

H. pylori is resistant to gastric acid. According to estimates, around half of the world’s population might be infected with the bacteria. The affliction often has no symptoms, but under certain conditions can cause gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, and stomach cancer. Consequently, H. pylori is often killed off with antibiotics as a precaution, even if the patient does not have any complaints.

Early infection with H. pylori protects against asthma

For their study, the researchers infected mice with H. pylori bacteria. If the mice were infected at the age of a few days old, they developed immunological tolerance to the bacterium and even reacted insignificantly – if at all – to strong, asthma-inducing allergens. Mice that were not infected with H. pylori until they had reached adulthood, however, had a much weaker defense. “Early infection impairs the maturation of the dendritic cells and triggers the accumulation of regulatory T-cells that are crucial for the suppression of asthma,” says Anne Müller, a professor of molecular cancer research at the University of Zurich, explaining the protective mechanism.

If regulatory T-cells were transferred from infected to uninfected mice, they too enjoyed effective protection against allergy-induced asthma. However, mice that had been infected early also lost their resistance to asthma-inducing allergens if H. pylori was killed off in them with the aid of antibiotics after the sensitization phase. According to lung and allergy specialist Christian Taube, a senior physician at III. Medical Clinic of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the new results confirm the hypothesis that the increase in allergic asthma in industrial nations is linked to the widespread use of antibiotics and the subsequent disappearance of micro-organisms that permanently populate the human body: “The study of these fundamental mechanisms is extremely important for us to understand asthma and be able to develop preventative and therapeutic strategies later on.”

Contact: Anne Mueller
mueller@imcr.uzh.ch
41-446-353-474
University of Zurich