… The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) Advocacy Manifesto Tackling the Allergy Crisis in Europe - Concerted Policy Action Needed FOREWORD Allergy is the most common chronic disease in Europe. Up to As President of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical 20% of patients with allergies live with a severe debilitating form Immunology (EAACI), I feel we have a duty to alert EU of their condition, and struggle daily with the fear of a possible policymakers to the growing public health burden posed by asthma attack, anaphylactic shock, or even death from an allergic allergy in Europe and the need to implement policy actions reaction. to help health care practitioners address this problem. The EAACI European Advocacy Manifesto proposes a series of th While at the beginning of the 20 century allergy was seen as a evidence-based recommendations to tackle the burden of allergy rare disease, in the last few decades we have witnessed a dramatic in Europe, foster allergy research and help strengthen Allergology increase in disease burden. …