Article: WARM WINTER JUMP STARTS ALLERGY SEASON.(MAIN)

Byline: Associated Press

WASHINGTON Allergy sufferers, blame your sneezes, sniffles and watery, itchy eyes on the second-warmest winter in the past 100 years: It's caused trees to start pollinating earlier than usual.

Pollen counts usually begin to build about this time, but high counts are being recorded nationwide due to the mild winter, said Sarah Kaluzny-Petroff of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology in Milwaukee.

``It's kind of everywhere,'' she said. ``Mild winter, with the real nice pop of weather that we had, really just jump-started all the trees.''

Last winter tied for second-warmest in a century of ...

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