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TRIGGER Food Allergy Awareness – Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth and Launceston set to ‘Light It Teal’ For Food Allergy Awareness. Throughout May, ‘Light It Teal’ will see many buildings and bridges around the world lit up in teal – the colour associated with food allergy awareness. In the United States, New York’s Empire State Building, the JFK Airport Air Traffic Control Tower, Seattle’s Pacific Science Center and Niagara Falls in the Buffalo/Toronto area are all getting ready to glow teal. In Australia, Light it Teal has partnered with TRIGGER Food Allergy Awareness to...

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Immune Deficiencies Foundation Australia executive officer Carolyn Dews. It’s an opportunity to recognise that people who look normal may be living with chronic health conditions, says Immune Deficiencies Foundation Australia chief executive Carolyn Dews. “Those people require ongoing health treatments and medications and often their quality of life is impacted,” she says.  For a disease to be considered rare it must affect no more than five out of 10,000 people, says Carolyn.   For some sufferers, they’re able to live a pretty normal life, but for other, she says: “They have con...