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Article: Developing Immunity to Bees
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 17, 1989
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Allergy shots against bee stings may not have to last a lifetime.
So say Johns Hopkins University researchers who studied allergic
reactions to stings from bees, wasps, hornets and yellow jackets
during a 15-year period. Rather than having to face expensive
injections forever, the researchers now believe, people sensitive to
insect venom may find that five years of treatment are sufficient to
develop their own immunity.
"In hay fever immunotherapy, if you stop the injections after
five years, some people do well and others ...