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Old 07-06-2011, 12:12 AM
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What I see on the net are anecdotal papers. Which means not many people have this reaction:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/946539

Vaccines, or other invasive things, set off autoimmune responses in some people. This paper implies that a subclinical myasthenia may have been present, and triggered by the venom.

What is unusual is that there has been a treatment suggested for Multiple Sclerosis, involving voluntary bee stings!
http://health.howstuffworks.com/medi...apy-and-ms.htm

So there might be some component in a wasp venom that is different to bee venom?
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