Filtering diesel exhaust could make it worse


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For those with allergies, supposedly cleaner fumes can mean worse lung function

Diesel exhaust is dirty, and a big contributor to the 4 to 7 million annual air pollution-caused deaths around the globe. It’s intuitive, then, that any effort to clean…
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