Allergies Worse Than Ever? Blame Global Warming
16 April 2010, 1:39 pm

Allergy sufferers like to claim - in between sniffles - that each spring's allergy season is worse than the last. But this year, they might actually be right. Thanks to an unusually cold and snowy winter, followed by an early and warm spring, pollen counts are through the roof in much of the U.S., especially in the Southeast, which is already home to some of the most allergenic cities in the country. A pollen count - the number of grains of pollen in a cubic meter of air - of 120 is considered high, but in Atlanta last week the number hit 5,733, the second highest level ever recorded in the city. Read more...

Source: Health News From Pueblo

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