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Climate change may be pushing fungal allergy season earlier

Allergies from fungi are starting 3 weeks earlier than they did two decades ago

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Fungal allergy sufferers may have noticed that their symptoms start earlier than in the past, and a new study backs that up. Allergy season kicks off roughly three weeks earlier than it did 20 years ago.

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By Erin Garcia de Jesús

There’s no rest for allergy sufferers.