He was subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on anaphylaxis in 1913.
Trenutno zaradi anafilaksije pride v ZDA do 500–1,000 primerov smrti na leto (2.4 na milijon), 20 smrti na leto v Združenem kraljestvu (0.33 na milijon) in 15 smrti na leto v Avstraliji (0.64 na leto).