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In what may trigger a new gender debate, doctors at Kenyatta National Hospital find women more allergic to cockroaches than men.
The ear, nose, and throat specialists studied 81 adult patients with allergic rhinitis and found women at higher risk of cockroach allergy than men.
“In this study we found a cockroach allergy was more common in women than men, with positivity being 55.1 per cent in women and 25 per cent in men,” say the doctors.
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