Biodiversity Loss: Impact on Immune Health

Global biodiversity and contact with nature have strongly declined in recent years, with modern lifestyles and urbanization decreasing our contact with nature.^1-3 

Discover how these changes have affected our immune health and susceptibility to allergic diseases from Fernando Martinez (Regents Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Arizona and Director of the Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, Tucson, AZ, USA), Helena Pité (Head of the ​Immuno-Allergy Department at the ​CUF Tejo Hospital and Professor at the NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa​, Lisbon, Portugal), and Mika Mäkelä (Chief Physician for Allergic Diseases at the Helsinki University Hospital​, Helsinki, Finland).