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Christina Desforges died in a Quebec hospital Wednesday after doctors were unable to treat her allergic reaction to the kiss the previous weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I expect to see calls for a ban on all peanut products in all foods, or else folks wearing something showing that they have potentially deadly peanut allergies (the Scarlet P?).<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">Peanut allergies have been rising in recent decades. The reason remains unclear but one study found that baby creams or lotions with peanut oil may cause children to develop allergies later in life.  About 1.5 million Americans are severely allergic to even the smallest trace of peanuts and peanut allergies account for 50 to 100 deaths in the United States each year. Canadian figures were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Yikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; until you keel over, dead. 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