Kentucky man dies after swarm of bees attacks him on his porch

A Kentucky antheral has died aft a swarm of bees attacked him connected his porch.

On Monday, the 59-year-old antheral whom section reports identified arsenic Michael Alford was moving a container of potting ungraded successful Harlan region erstwhile helium was stung by a swarm of bees from wrong the package, authorities said successful a statement.

The connection added that the man’s household started CPR, efforts that archetypal responders continued, but “those attempts failed”.

John W Jones, Harlan’s lawman coroner, aboriginal pronounced Alford dormant astatine a section hospital. Investigators determined his origin of decease was respiratory nonaccomplishment resulting from the bee stings, the section quality presumption WBIR reported.

According to Alford’s obituary, helium was a erstwhile state presumption manager who lived his full beingness successful Harlan region and enjoyed four-wheeling, playing the piano, collecting knives and whittling. Survivors see his woman Chi-Chi Margalene “Margo” Hughes Alford, 3 children and 11 grandchildren.

Authorities said they extended “heartfelt prayers … to the full household and friends” of Alford.

From 2011 to 2021, determination were a full of 788 deaths from hornet, wasp and bee stings crossed the US, with an mean of 72 deaths annually, the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. Overall, 84% of the deaths that occurred were among men.

Last September, a 20-year-old Ohio antheral was stung at slightest 20,000 times by bees portion helium was cutting branches. The antheral yet recovered aft helium was enactment into a medically induced coma.

Meanwhile, successful 2021, an Arizona antheral died and 2 different radical were hospitalized aft they were stung hundreds of times by bees.

In the lawsuit of a sting by a bee, wasp oregon hornet, the CDC recommends washing the tract with soap and water, arsenic good arsenic removing the stinger utilizing gauze wipes oregon by scraping a fingernail implicit the area. It warns to ne'er compression the stinger oregon usage tweezers and to use crystal to the country to trim swelling.