Other respiratory diseases

Farmer's lung and other allergic alveolitis

• There have been 5 or fewer new assessed cases for Industrial Injuries and Disablement Benefit (IIDB) each year over the past decade.
• Over a similar period, there have been typically fewer than 10 deaths a year in the last few years.
• Generally between 20 and 50 estimated new cases are reported to specialists each year.

Allergic rhinitis

• There were 25 new IIDB cases of allergic rhinitis, a substantial reduction in the number of cases seen in 1996/97.

Byssinosis

• New IIDB cases of byssinosis have been in single figures for more than the last decade.
• In a similar period, there have been 5 or fewer deaths each year.