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Johanna Chisholm

Ohio man wakes up from coma after he was stung by bees over 20,000 times

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An Ohio man who was placed in a medically induced coma after being stung more than 20,000 times by bees has woken up, his family says.

On Friday morning, 20-year-old Austin Bellamy was harnessed into a lemon tree where he was tasked with trimming back some of its branches while his grandmother and uncle looked on from below. While hacking away the tree’s limbs, he accidentally cut-in to a bee’s nest, sending thousands of buzzing stingers into the yard.

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