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Article: ALLERGIC REACTIONS SPELL MORE MISERY FROM EL NINO.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 4, 1998
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California's El Nino rains have brought a bumper crop of allergy-producing mold and pollen, and people are suffering.
Doctors' waiting rooms are clogged with the sniffling, wheezing and itchy-eyed.
``I have patients who haven't had allergy attacks for 15 years coming in with 10 days of horrible allergic symptoms,'' Dr. Bernard Geller, a Santa Monica allergist, said yesterday.
``They have mountains of tissues alongside their bed and are being chased out of the bedroom by their spouses because they are sneezing all day long.''
Los Angeles had its wettest February on record with 13.68 inches of rain, toppling the 1884 record of 13.37.
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