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Article: Allergies attack! (includes related article on science experiment involving the production of mucus)(Cover Story)
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- Science World
- Article date:
- March 21, 1997
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No more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! That's the message that blared from some school lunchrooms in the Northeast last August. The ban came after a 15-year-old Connecticut girl died eating a piece of cake with peanuts inside. She suffered a severe allergy attack that made her blood pressure plummet and her throat swell, preventing air from reaching her lungs.
Kids' favorite sandwich isn't the only item being banned because of allergies. In December, the mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, signed an ordinance prohibiting certain kinds of trees. Local health officials say the pollen spewed by elm, cypress, mulberry, and male juniper trees triggers allergies in 20 ...
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