Moment influencer films herself being stung by world's most venomous animal
The travel blogger was attacked as she was swimmng in the Phillipines.
A travel blogger accidentally filmed the moment she had a painful encounter with the world ’s most venomous creature in the Philippines.
Julie, from Ireland, was swimming in the shallows of a remote island when she sat down and suddenly felt extreme pain in her upper thigh. Instantly the woman realised she had experienced the full horror of a box jellyfish, whose venom can cause heart failure in people in extreme cases. Luckily for the influencer, also among the visitors was an Australian doctor and a nurse who recognised what had happened and were able to keep her stable.
Julie was rushed to the nearest hospital, some three hours away, for treatment for the painful sting. She told her followers on TikTok: “When it happened I got up and I was screaming and in a weird state of mind, I was running and screaming. I wasn’t even crying because of the shock.
“I knew from the feeling this was a jellyfish but I was hoping it wasn’t. I was very hot, squatted down and I didn’t feel anything but when I stood up I felt burning in my thighs and on my butt and when the venom spread it was so weird, I could feel it. Everything was just vibrating, it felt like it was.
“Where the sting was, on my thighs and on my butt it felt like a flat iron pressed against me, it was so sore. That lasted a day.
“The tour guide picked up the jellyfish and it was the length of a man. It was bigger than me and its tentacle were huge and completely transparent.
“There was a doctor and a nurse on our boat, what’re the odds, they were just on holiday. They were from Australia and knew about jellyfish, box jellyfish and they helped me get through it because I was in so much pain. They monitored me for an hour because with box jellyfish they can give you a heart attack within half an hour and the neurotoxin can paralyse you if it goes to the brain.”
She had been on a tourist expedition from Coron to El Nido, a municipality on the larger Palawan island when the incident happened.
Julie added: “There wasn’t meant to be any jellyfish in this area or they wouldn’t have brought us there, this was a very rare thing.”
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