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Article: Family stranded by nut-allergy row flies home
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- August 7, 2008
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A SCOTTISH family was heading home last night after being left
stranded in the United States since the weekend because of their
son's severe nut allergy.
Amoz Harrell, a nine-year-old schoolboy from Ellon in
Aberdeenshire, could suffer a potentially fatal anaphylactic shock
if he came into to contact with nuts.
His parents, Nicola and David Harrell, spoke of their anger
yesterday after staff refused to allow them on board their return
KLM flight from Chicago on Saturday because they could not give them
a guarantee that the aircraft would be a nut-free environment.
Amoz and his brothers Imran, seven, and Isaiah, 11, and their
parents
were told by the captain of the aircraft that there was ...