Source: WASHINGTONIAN, 7/13/21


It was on Tom Muir’s daily commute from Virginia to his federal-government job in DC that he knew something was very wrong. On those drives, he started to notice that “my eyes would swell, my lips would swell. I had facial flushing, and my heart rate would go through the roof.” For two years, Muir—who often works outdoors on his farm in Fauquier County—was having increasingly bad allergic reactions to something, but he couldn’t figure out what.

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