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Article: Curbing allergy to insect venom: therapy stops reactions to stings years later.
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- Science News
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- August 14, 2004
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Immunizing adults against insect-sting allergies has proved highly effective since it was first tested in the 1970s. But while many children receive shots for allergies such as hay fever, they're much less likely than adults to receive allergy shots against insect venom--in part because many parents and doctors believe that children typically outgrow this kind of allergy, says David B.K. Golden of Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore.
A new study of people with an insect-sting allergy shows that those who received allergy shots as children still benefit from them as young adults. Moreover, the study suggests that while most children do indeed outgrow ...
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