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| Sunday, August 22, 1999 Published at 14:13 GMT 15:13 UK World: Asia-Pacific Wasp plague in Kazakh city Reports from Kazakhstan say that residents of the former capital, Almaty, are suffering from a plague of wasps. A senior health official, Elzhan Birtanov, said that there had been a sharp rise in the number of people seeking medical advice after being stung; and that several people a day were being admitted to hospital with life threatening allergic reactions. He said the urban wasps -- which feed at markets and rubbish dumps -- posed a particular danger to public health. From the newsroom of the BBC World Service |
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