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<\/p>\nA hiker is fighting for his life after being stung more than 100 times by bees on a mountain in Arizona.<\/p>\n
He rang emergency services in Phoenix because his injuries meant he couldn’t continue his descent from Lookout Mountain.<\/p>\n
Rescue teams dispatched a helicopter and winched him to safety, before transferring him to an ambulance to take him to hospital.<\/p>\n
Officials say he is fighting for his life.<\/p>\n
Phoenix Fire Department has urged hikers to avoid disturbing hives, wear light-coloured clothing, and not to use scented products while outdoors.<\/p>\n
Anyone who encounters a swarm is advised to run away quickly while protecting their head and face – taking extra care to cover their mouth.<\/p>\n
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\n Pic: Phoenix Fire Department<\/p>\n
Dr Frank Lovecchio, a professor at Arizona State University, has said the venom from repeated bee stings effectively “crushes your muscle”.<\/p>\n
He told FOX 10 that bees in Arizona are highly aggressive – and it is not uncommon for someone to be stung hundreds of times in a single incident.<\/p>\n
“It’s always about protecting the queen bee, protecting the hive,” he said.<\/p>\n
“And it sends signals that the other bees come over and kind of attack you.”<\/p>\n
Read more from Sky News: An unusually warm winter has caused bee activity to rise in Arizona, and this is the latest in a long line of incidents.<\/p>\n Last week, five people were stung, with one taken to hospital, after a swarm disrupted a women’s lacrosse game at a university campus in Tempe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hiker is fighting for his life after being stung more than 100 times by bees on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-384472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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