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Wendy Zuckerman

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Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

It's called Suit and Tie.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

Soon after, Ella had another asthma attack.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

Rosamund said that it started out just like a normal night.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

Ella was listening to music, Skyfall by Adele.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

She was kind of obsessed with that song.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

Ella had a coughing fit that led to a seizure and then a heart attack.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

She died in the middle of the night at 3am on February 15th, 2013.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

In the UK, when someone dies of unknown causes, a coroner is called in to do the assessment.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

In 2014, the coroner declared that Ella died as a combination of acute respiratory failure and severe asthma.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

But still, none of this made sense to Rosamund.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

And she still wanted to understand what had triggered the attacks.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

What killed Ella?

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

The coroner's report was mostly useless to Rosamund.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

Except there was this one thing.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

A clue.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

To push it even further, she started doing a bunch of media interviews.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

People got in touch from all over the country, throwing out all kinds of ideas for what might have happened to Yaa.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

And this eventually led her to Stephen Holgate, a professor at the University of Southampton who specialises in asthma and allergies.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

One day in 2016, he was on the train heading home from London.

Science Vs
How Toxic Is the Air You Breathe?

Stephen had spent his entire career researching asthma, getting to know the lungs inside and out.