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Dr Bill Frankland,'the grandfather of allergy' has died aged 108 – and still working... Having trained with Sir Alexander Fleming, working on penicillin and survived three years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp he returned to England to work in St Mary's hospital. Here focused on hay-fever and pollen research, setting up the daily pollen count now used worldwide to help hay fever sufferers and clinicians. See the BBC report, a CNN article which carries some interesting pictures and a BSACI assessment of his life.

Even if you do not feel ill, it is important that you recognise some of the weirder symptoms that COVID-19 is throwing up so that you are able to isolate yourself and avoid infecting anyone else. However, it remains very confusing as many of these symptoms, although they could be related to COVID-19 could also be symptoms of some other unrelated condition. Until tests become widely available a good deal of unnecessary isolation may occur – but better that than a further spread of the virus. Read on.

A new app developed by King's College, Guy's & St Thomas Hospitals and the NHS allowing everyone to monitor and report on their health daily, whether well or ill. This data will help researchers identify high risk areas, who is most at risk (by better understanding symptoms linked to underlying health conditions) and how fast the virus is spreading in your area. Takes 1 minute per day to self report. Download the app here.

This is an incredibly difficult time for everyone in the food business - be it freefrom or the wider food industry.
At the FreeFrom Food Awards we want to do anything that we can to help our colleagues struggling with the coronavirus fallout.
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How has Taiwan managed to control the coronavirus outbreak so successfully – and why have other countries not followed their protocols. And how one town in Italy has also managed to remain virus free. Read this blog.

A blog post asking whether Wuhan's wall to wall 5G coverage could be implicated in the outbreak of COVID-19 – and whether the worldwide societal fallout from the measures to control it may be more damaging than the virus itself. Also suggesting that laughter is a valuable – and very enjoyable – way of boosting one's immune system – bring on those Dad's Army tapes...