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Letter: Don't lose the scent

Published 5 January 2005

From Penny Aagaard

If the contraceptive pill affects women’s perception of body odour, and as a consequence they tend to choose partners with similar, rather than complementary, immune systems to their own, then mightn’t their children be born with suboptimal immune systems as a result (4 December 2004, p 30)? Could there be a relationship between this and documented increases in asthma and allergies?

North Tamborine, Queensland, Australia

Issue no. 2481 published 8 January 2005

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