Florida Man Dies From Fire Ants Washed Into Flooded Home

August 28, 2008 8:44 p.m. EST

Windsor Genova - AHN News Writer

Chuluota, FL (AHN) - Fire ants that washed into a flooded home in this Central Florida community have bitten a 60-year-old man to death.

Seminole County authorities announced that the victim died in a hospital Wednesday from shock and allergy caused by the ant bites he sustained on Tuesday. The man's name was withheld.

The deadly fire ants were in a colony floating on floodwaters spawned by Tropical Storm Fay.

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