Does Hong Kong have enough expertise to treat peanut allergies for some 21,000 people?

Hongkongers with peanut allergies will be unlikely to benefit from a new probiotics study because there is a “lack of expertise” to test the treatment locally, one of the city’s top allergists has said. Dr Lee Tak-hong, director of the Allergy Centre at the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, said the city’s estimated 21,000 peanut allergy sufferers continued to be neglected by the city’s health system. He said the number of allergists had declined since 2014, from...