UPDATED July 9, 2021 – Family tells Faines’ former employer, News4Jax, that she died from “food allergies”
You may believe this if you choose. A Yale-educated, 35-year-old, liberal woman, ate something that she’s allergic too and died of anaphylaxis (severe allergic reaction),
according to News4Jax, Faines’ former mainstream media employer. The report also says she had asthma.
A 2013 study published in the British journal
Clinical & Experimental Allergy concluded the following:
The incidence of fatal food anaphylaxis in food-allergic people is lower than accidental death in the general European population.
That means you have a better chance of dying (
according to insurance companies) in a car accident, falling down and breaking your skull, drowning in a swimming pool, etc. than from food anaphylaxis.
Peanut allergies are the most “common” food-related allergic reaction deaths in the world,
according to WebMD. Children are by far the most vulnerable to death from peanut and all other food allergies.
EIGHT (

children died from all food allergic reactions
from 1991 to 2001. Four of those were from milk allergies.
Coincidentally or otherwise, the foregoing data show a slight increase in the risk of death from food allergies for victims with asthma. But that’s because asthma was a comorbidity in three of the
eight deaths in that 10-year span. News4Jax reported that Ms. Faines suffered from asthma.
Eleven (11) people
died from peanut allergies in 2005. The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) also ranked peanuts as the
most “deadly” food allergy. The most generous estimate for deaths by food allergies is also from the AAAI –
150 per year.
So if you want to believe Yale-educated Ms. Faines died from food allergies, more power to you.