Fields of guayule Yulex makes big strides in producing Hevea latex alternative

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MARICOPA,Ariz.-Katrina Cornish remembers delivering a paper years ago at a conference in Haiti-more on a solution to the wildfire spread of allergies to natural rubber latex.Researchers at the time were seeking a way to change the structure of traditional Hevea latex to eliminate the sensitizing effect.Something needed to be done:As many us 15 percent of U.S.health care workers and 65 percent of babies born with the birth defect known as spina bilida had developed at least some sensitivity to lnlex.their react ions ranging from contact dermatitis to anapln lactic shock.