WHY WE'RE GOING NUTS OVER NUT ALLERGIES by Alice Park
"Given all the attention paid in recent years to food allergies, the number of people in the U.S. who die from them — 15 to 20 a year — is relatively small. More people die each year from bee stings. 'But we don't remove flowers from schools or playgrounds,' Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a professor of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School, commented recently in the British Medical Journal."