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The phrаse the sаme phenоmenоn in pаragraph 12 refers tо _____11 Ziska’s 2011 study, which found a lengthening pollen season in North America, didn’t see the same changes everywhere. Ziska’s team examined measurements of airborne pollen collected by 10 National Allergy Bureau (NAB) pollen-counting stations between 1995 and 2009, on a path stretching from east Texas northward to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The team found that pollen season lengthened more at higher latitudes, anywhere from 13 to 27 days north of roughly 44°N (roughly the latitude of Minneapolis). At the southernmost station (Georgetown, Texas), pollen season actually decreased by one day.12 Ziska’s team’s finding was not unique; multiple studies have uncovered the same phenomenon, and it’s in keeping with broader findings that climate change is more pronounced at higher latitudes. As reported in Environmental Health Perspectives, the geographic differences in allergy season impacts can probably be attributed to water vapor. In more humid, rainier southern latitudes, water vapor likely increases cloud cover, moderating the warming. Furthermore, rain washes pollen out of the air, at least for a little while. So, pollen-triggered allergies may not worsen as much in the southern United States as the north—assuming there’s no climate-driven increase in thunderstorms picking on asthmatics.
Whаt is the mаin purpоse оf the sectiоn Allergies 101? Allergy 1012 An аllergy is a reaction of your immune system to something that, for most people, is essentially harmless, such as pet dander, nuts, or pollen. For most seasonal allergy sufferers, the diagnosis is hay fever, or—as your doctor would write it down in your medical chart—allergic rhinitis. Reactions range from annoying—sneezing, itching, watery eyes, stuffy nose—to dangerous: in some people, allergies can trigger asthma attacks.3 Seasonal allergies afflict up to 30 percent of the world’s human population, studies have found, and the Cleveland Clinic reports a rising allergy prevalence. For most people, allergies aren’t life threatening, but they can hamper one’s enjoyment of life—for months at a stretch. Tree pollen strikes in the spring, grass pollen in the summer, and weed pollen in the summer and fall.4 If you have hay fever, your worst enemy is probably ragweed—common ragweed, giant ragweed, lance leaf ragweed, or western ragweed. Ragweed likely causes more hay fever than all other plants put together, according to USDA plant physiologist Lewis Ziska, and a single ragweed plant can produce a billion pollen grains. Those grains contain a protein that excels in annoying the human immune system.