
Science of Survival: Bee Still My Heart
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The Outhouse and the Bees
"You stand and try to run. The outhouse is less than 100 feet away, but you've barely made it 10 steps before the swarm covers you in a blanket of thorns," he says. "As the venom pours into you, cells burst all through your body,. Your blood pressure plummets, your hands and feet swell to twice their size." A deep ache radiates fromYour joints and a burning itch covers your body. You can no longer feel individual stings. It feels as if the nerves of your skin have all been stripped there. Hours later, you wake in a hospital bed, unable to open your swollen eyes".
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