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Article: Not All Yellow Jackets Created Equal; Some Species Cause More Severe Allergic Reactions Than Others.
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- AScribe Medicine News Service
- Article date:
- August 8, 2006
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Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
BALTIMORE, Aug. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Flouting widely held beliefs that yellow jacket stings have less effect early in the season and that most people can outgrow a dangerous allergic reaction to a sting, allergists at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have concluded that the sting severity is determined not by the calendar but by the species of insect doing the stinging.
"As far as stings go, some yellow jackets are worse than others," says David Golden, M.D., an associate professor of allergy and immunology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "Because weAEve found that the severity of an ...