Health
‘Peanut allergies more common than Pfizer vaccine allergy’ – The Star Online
But that has not prevented us from eating peanuts.
FOOD allergies like that from peanuts are more common than a severe allergic reaction to the Pfizer vaccine for Covid-19, says a health expert.
Consultant paediatrician and neonatologist Datuk Dr Musa Mohd Nordin says the risk of a peanut allergy is about 30,000 in a million.
It is 6,500 times more likely to happen than an allergic reaction to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
But that has not prevented us from eating peanuts, he points out.
With the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the risk is at 4.6 per million,…
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