A support group and a lab in the St. Louis area provide resources for people with the allergy to mammal products — and evidence that its effects can be reversed.
Mark Schleifstein is a freelance environment reporter based in the New Orleans area. Previously he was an environmental reporter at The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate. Schleifstein contributed to the award-winning “Polluter’s Paradise” series on the state’s petrochemical industry, published in the paper and online on NOLA.com and ProPublica. His stories on Hurricane Katrina were among the Times-Picayune's stories honored with 2006 Pulitzer Prizes for Public Service and Breaking News Reporting. He's the co-author of the 2006 book Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms," about Katrina.
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