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I had several inquiries about this and since it's relatively short:
 
" 'Killer' bees attack "
 
By Dianne Barth and Sandra Sanchez / USA Today
 
Jesus Diaz has survived the USA's first reported "killer"bee attack.
But officials warn it's just the beginning.  Diaz, 35, couldn't hear
over the whir of the tractor-mower he was driving at the Siesta Mobile
Home Park in Borwnsville, Texas, May 20.  When he felt pricks, he ran.
"I thought they were honeybees," Diaz said when he learned what stung
him.  He was treated for 18 stings on the head and neck.  City health
workers destroyed the swarm, but sent some bees to a federal research
laboratory, which identified them Tuesday.  The USA's first "killer"bees
-- so named because they sting in lethal numbers -- arrived in Hidalgo,
Teaxas, last fall without incident.  But a wet spring left southern
Texas in full bloom, luring 60 swarms of up to 10'000 Africanized bees
each across the Rio Grande since April, said Teaxas A&M University's
Kathleen Davis.  The swarming season is ending now, but Davis said
conditions are ripe for the bees' return in the fall.
 
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