QUEEN WASP'S STING
MARRIED WOMAN'S DEATH POISON AFFECTS HEART LONDON, June 13 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 oif her shoe and knocked Avasps to floor. She thought she had killed 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 due to poison from the sting working on the 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 not heard of a similar case in his 25 years' experience.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23073, 25 June 1938, Page 15
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126QUEEN WASP'S STING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23073, 25 June 1938, Page 15
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