Queen Wasp’s Sting
MARRIED WOMAN’S DEATH LONDON, June 12. Fifteen minutes after being stung by a queen wasp a married woman, aged 56, living at Friary Island, Old Windsor, died. Two wasps flew into the house. The woman took off her shoo and knocked both wasps to the floor. She thought she had killod them. Later, when crossing the room in her bare feet, she trod on one of them. Shortly afterward she collapsed. A doctor said that death was duo to poison from the sting working on tho woman’s weak heart. He said the sting of a queen wasp was more serious than that of an ordinary wasp. The coroner said he had net heard of a similar case in his 25 years’ experi-
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 152, 30 June 1938, Page 7
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