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- PublicationHypersensitivity Reactions(Kuala Lumpur: Institute for Medical Research, 2011)Nurul Aina Murni Bt. Che AzidHypersensitivity or commonly known as allergy, is the result of exaggerated or inappropriate immune reactions that are damaging and sometimes fatal to the host [l]. It may develop from humoral or cell-mediated immune responses. It evolved from the observation of Richet and Portier, and was classified later in I963 into four types by Coombs and Gell to hypersensitivity types I, II, IHI and IV or delayed-type hypersensitivity and later a fifth one viz. Stimulatory has been added [2]as a type v, Type V was added to include the stimulation of the endocrine system by immune reactions, a phenomenon found in some autoimmune disease such as Graves disease (3).