FRI 21 MAR 2003
By MICHELLE PAINE
Tasmanian researchers have developed a life-saving treatment for jack jumper ant stings.
The world breakthrough will be recognised in the leading medical journal The Lancet tomorrow, Health Minister David Llewellyn announced yesterday.
Leading the study was Royal Hobart Hospital emergency medicine specialist Simon Brown—who nearly died from his first bad reaction to a jack jumper sting while collecting his last batch of venom for the project.
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