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Just a wheeze? A harmless night-cough? Exercise is supposed to be this hard, right?

Maybe, or maybe you’re displaying the classic symptoms of asthma which you’re ignoring and putting your life at risk. Believe it or not, people still die of asthma in 2016, a lot more than you might think, in fact.

South Africa has the fourth-most annual asthma deaths in the world, with the majority being people between 5 and 35 years old. Worse, this number is on the rise. 

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