How a digital revolution in pollen counting could save lives

How a digital revolution in pollen counting could save lives - Health - ABC News

"When you see the pollen count on the weather report, do you know it relies on a person manually gathering the information using 1940s technology?

Unlike other environmental monitoring equipment, our pollen-counting method has hardly advanced in the last 70 years.

This is despite 18 per cent of us in Australia and New Zealand suffering allergic rhinitis — what we commonly call "hay fever".

For most sufferers, hay fever is inconvenient. But for some, pollen can be catastrophic.

Lolium perenne, commonly known as ryegrass, is one of around 800 grass species in Australia."

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