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Transcript: Profile: Study shows children who grow up with cats and dogs are less likely to develop allergies
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- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- August 28, 2002
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Profile: Study shows children who grow up with cats and dogs are less
likely to develop allergies
Host: RENEE MONTAGNE
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
RENEE MONTAGNE, host:
A new study finds that children who grow up around cats and dogs are
less likely to develop a wide range of allergies. NPR's Jon Hamilton
reports that the study is the latest sign that scientists are changing
their view of how and why allergies occur.
JON HAMILTON reporting:
In the late 1980s, researchers began studying more than 800 children
living in middle-class suburbs north of Detroit. The scientists collected
data on each child from birth. They hoped to figure out which ...