{"id":1346443,"date":"2024-08-13T13:56:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T18:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1346443"},"modified":"2024-08-15T03:36:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T08:36:15","slug":"east-texas-man-stung-by-hundreds-of-bees-life-flighted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1346443","title":{"rendered":"East Texas man stung by \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchundreds\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of bees life flighted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHEROKEE COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/ETMC-helicopter-AIR1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-613474\" \/>An East Texas man was life flighted to a hospital on Monday after being stung by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hundreds of bees,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to our news partners at KETK. Cherokee County Sheriff Brent Dickson said the man was stung outside of Rusk in the Reklaw community and the man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s condition is unknown at this time. According to the CDC, bees are most abundant during the warmer months and they recommend running away if attacked by several at once. A bee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sting released a chemical that may attract other bees. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The average person can safely tolerate 10 stings per pound of body weight,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This means that although 500 stings can kill a child, the average adult could withstand more than 1100 stings.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHEROKEE COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c An East Texas man was life flighted to a hospital on Monday after being stung by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hundreds of bees,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to our news partners at KETK. Cherokee County Sheriff Brent Dickson said the man was stung outside of Rusk in the Reklaw community and the man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s condition is unknown at this time. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1346443\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas man stung by \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchundreds\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of bees life flighted<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1346450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/ETMC-helicopter-AIR1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 05:08:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/ETMC-helicopter-AIR1-150x150.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1346443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346453,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346443\/revisions\/1346453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1346450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1346443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1346443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1346443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}