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Article: NSW: Bushfire smoke not causing major asthma attacks in Sydney
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- December 30, 2001
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AAP General News (Australia)
12-30-2001
NSW: Bushfire smoke not causing major asthma attacks in Sydney
By Roz King
SYDNEY, Dec 30 AAP - Bushfire smoke that has smothered Sydney since the fire emergency
began several days ago has not caused many major asthma attacks.
The city's major hospitals have reported that few people are coming into emergency
departments with respiratory problems.
"We haven't actually received as many respiratory (patients) as we might have expected,"
said Tracey Clarke, a spokesman for the emergency department at Nepean Hospital.
The hospital is situated west of Sydney near where some of the state's fiercest fires
have been burning since Christmas.
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