A freak illness known as thunderstorm asthma has now killed at least six people in Australia. Thousands of people were rushed to the hospital with breathing problems in the southern Australian state of Victoria as emergency services struggle. Thunderstorm asthma occurs when a storm hits during a period of unusually high rye grass pollen. The pollen irritates the lungs' bronchial tubes, causing them to become inflamed and filled with mucus and making it hard for people to breathe.
It's extremely unfourtunate that these people are suffering. This relates to early colonicolonial times when the natives died from diseases.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/23/health/thunderstorm-asthma-australia/
this is crazy!! i didn't know that thunderstorms caused asthma to kill people
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