And it is peanut butter, long a favorite with kids and the adults who pack their lunches, that has put schools in the middle. You tell people, 'This can kill my son' and still it doesn't click that actually something like peanut butter can kill someone. Schools that haven't had a dangerously allergic pupil can expect one soon. It seems like the incidence is really increasing. As to why, I don't think anyone in the world could tell you for sure.
Skeptics suggest children are simply being taken to doctors and diagnosed more often.
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