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Article: Counting on summer misery; Birmingham is one of the worst places for hay fever sufferers and this year pollen counts have reached record highs. Ros Dodd reports.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- June 26, 1999
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Steve Butler has grown a moustache. Not for vanity's sake, but because a cold sore on his upper lip has made it impossible for him to shave.
The cold sore is the result of being struck down with a nasty bout of hay fever.
"For the past couple of weeks, my nose has done nothing but stream and a cold sore developed - as it tends to do every time I get hay fever," explains the Birmingham computer operator. "I couldn't shave properly, so I decided there was nothing for it but to grow a moustache. I suppose the added benefit is that no one can see the cold sore now."
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