Worms not to be sneezed at

WORMS hold the key to new treatments for asthma and other allergic diseases, a leading scientist believes.

Dr Padraic Fallon in the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and his team have just been awarded €1.68 million by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) to develop new treatments for allergies.

About half a million people in Ireland suffer from asthma. The country has the forth highest rate of asthma in the world and levels are increasing.