Is your hay fever getting worse?

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Is your hay fever getting worse?

Climate change could be to blame

May 2nd 2025

APRIL WAS the cruellest month. Just as the blossoms arrived, John Bostock found himself struck by “an unusual train of symptoms”. First came an “acute itching and smarting” around the eyes. Then came the sneezing.

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