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- VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico - So-called killer bees swarmed into a school in southeast
Mexico Tuesday, stinging some 40 children and a teacher, Mexican Red Cross
officials said.
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- Five children, aged between six and 12,
and the teacher were hospitalized after being stung by the Africanized
bees, which attack at the slightest provocation, said Red Cross doctor
Juan Lopez. The bees attacked a school in the town of Centro, in Tabasco
state.
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- Thirty-six other children were given
first aid treatment at a health center near the school after suffering
pain and even vomiting fits.
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- African honey bees are a hybrid of European
honeybees and an aggressive African import introduced to Brazil in 1956
for interbreeding. Some 26 colonies escaped into the wild in 1957 and that
front has been moving steadily north through Latin America at a rate of
about 300 miles (480 km) a year.
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- Mexico is already colonized and in 1990,
the Africanized bees reached Texas.
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- They can kill if a person is stung enough
times. Several people have died in Argentina and Costa Rica in recent years.
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