Up to 15 percent of Moroccans are asthmatic

Between 10 and 15 percent of Moroccans are asthmatic which places Morocco among the countries having the highest rate of asthma cases, a Moroccan medical source says.

A study presented lately at the national congress of allergy and immunology currently held at the Moroccan southern city of Marrakesh says that Anglo-saxon countries such as Britain, USA, Canada, New-Zealand and Australia have between 11 and 36 percent of asthma cases.

In Morocco, the number of asthma patients vary from one region to another, reaching for instance 6.6 percent in Rabat, 12 percent in Casablanca and 17 percent in Marrakesh.