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World Asthma Day 2025 - May 06
May 9 , 2025
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- This day is observed on the first Tuesday of May to raise awareness about the condition and the risks it poses.
- Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease where a person’s airways become highly inflamed, narrowed, and swollen, producing the excess mucus, which makes the breathing difficult.
- According to the WHO, 26.2 crore people suffer from asthma, with a mortality count (deaths) of 4.55 lakh globally in 2019.
- Over 3.4 crores of people in India have asthma.
- Despite accounting for only 13% of the world's asthma population, India has 42% of global asthma mortality.
- This year’s theme is "Make Inhaled Treatments Accessible for ALL".
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