Article: Desert now seen as worst place to go for your allergies

Desert now seen as worst place to go for your allergies zB1 By Pauline Arrillaga THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TUCSON, Ariz. -- Terri Cast slumps in the chair of her doctor's office, nine dots the color of roses blossoming across her arm.

"I itch.

I itch!" she complains, jutting a finger at one spreading splotch, demanding to know what it is.

Across the hall, Lonnie Kelly sits amazingly still as a doctor thrusts an instrument up her nose and asks, "Still having the allergies?" "Oh yeah," she responds, her watery eyes shooting him a look of, "What are you, nuts?"

A few doors down, Anne Abbott Gee, with a set of blotches identical to Cast's decorating her arm, munches on a chocolate chip cookie ...

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