The Telegraph, 8/7/2014
An amateur beekeeper who developed a life threatening
allergy to bees has been cured after more than three years of treatment.
Simon Russ, a biology teacher, had been a beekeeper for
seven years when a single sting sent him into anaphylactic shock and left him
in hospital fighting for his life.
Determined to continue his hobby Mr Russ, 49, went through a
painstaking course of immunotherapy.
At first he could only cope with one 10 millionth of a
sting.
But over the course of three years he was injected with a
dose of venom every few weeks, which gradually increased in strength, until he
could cope with two stings…
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