At least four people have died and thousands have been taken to hospital with respiratory problems after a "thunderstorm asthma" event in Melbourne on Monday 21 November.Ambulance services and hospital emergency
asthmaemergencyepidemicethnicityhospitalizationIndianrhinitisthunderstormBackground The world's most catastrophic and deadly thunderstorm asthma epidemic struck Melbourne, Australia, on November 21, 2016. Objective Among thunderstorm‐affected patients presenting to emergency rooms (ERs), we investigated risk ...
allergic asthmarhinitisryegrassRATIONALE: On November 21, 2016 in Australia, a major thunderstorm-asthma epidemic struck Melbourne with an unprecedented number of emergency presentations, hospital admissions and fatalities. OBJECTIVES: We identified affected patients who presented to The Royal Melbourne ...
Thunderstorm asthma events have been reported aboutevery seven years in Melbourne since 1984. With population increases, there are many more people living in the north and west of the city who are exposed to the particular weather conditions that cause thunderstorm asthma. In Melbourne, thunderstorm ...