BRUCE LYON: “This is the saddest thing. On the most beautiful days, especially when the spring starts around and you’re ready to get out and do something. Then I’m so tired I didn’t even feel like getting out and doing anything. I felt like, I think I’m going to go back home and sleep.”
FAITH LAPIDUS: It is hard to believe that something as small as a grain of pollen can cause so much suffering. But the effect can be overwhelming. Allergist Burt Wolf says this year was worse than usual.
BURT WOLF: “I mean we don’t even need a calendar for a certain segment of our patient population. We know when allergy season begins for them and how it affects them. But this year many of our patients were calling two or three weeks earlier.”
FAITH LAPIDUS: Doctor Wolf believes rising temperatures in Earth’s atmosphere may be responsible.
BURT WOLF: “Increased temperature to a certain degree and also increased CO2, or so-called greenhouse effect. These thing, in some studies, have shown to increase pollen over the last decades, sixty to ninety percent.”
FAITH LAPIDUS: Allergies cannot be cured but the physical reactions can be treated. Doctor Wolf says several new medicines have reached the market in recent years and allergy injections often work for more severe cases.
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BOB DOUGHTY: Like many people, animals are getting fatter. At least that is the finding of a report in the British publication, Proceedings of the Royal Society B. David Allison of the University of Alabama at Birmingham wrote the report.
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