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Pollen

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Is your nose streaming? Are your eyes watering? Feeling a little listless? You may have pollen to thank. As all hay-fever sufferers will tell you, this is a bad year for pollen. Allergists consider any amount of pollen above 150 grains per cubic meter to be an extremely high pollen count. This year, juniper pollen is being recorded at densities up to 23,000 grains per cubic meter. Is all that pollen good for anything besides making you miserable?