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Girl stung by venomous box jellyfish 'shouldn't be alive'
A biologist researches the lethal nature of the box jellyfish.
To call 10-year-old Rachel Shardlow a survivor is an understatement.
In December, the girl tangled with a box jellyfish, one of the world's most venomous creatures, in the Calliope River near Gladstone, Australia.
"Usually when you see people who have been stung by box jellyfish with that number of the tentacle contacts on their body, it's usually in a morgue," Jamie Seymour, a zoology and tropical ecology associate professor at James Cook University told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
The creature didn't just sting the girl. It enveloped her: Its tentacles wrapped around her limbs and wouldn't let go. She couldn't see or breathe. The creature, which is capable of killing an adult in four minutes, wrapped its tentacles tighter and knocked her unconscious.
"I don't know of anybody in the entire literature where we've studied this where someone has had such an extensive sting that has survived," Seymour told ABC. "When I first saw the pictures of the injuries I just went, 'you know to be honest, this kid should not be alive'. I mean they are horrific."
After several weeks in the hospital Shardlow is still feeling the effects - but the fact she is feeling anything at all - let alone doing as well as she is baffles Seymour. For now, besides scarring and memory loss, she is doing well, her family told ABC.
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There have been others who have survived being stung by the deadly jellyfish, but Seymour said many of them are stung quickly, but not to the extent Shardlow was and with as many tentacles wrapped around them, Seymour said.
Seymour and other Queensland researchers received a $40,000 grant to investigate just how lethal is the venom of Irukandji and its relative box jellyfish. They will also look for treatments to help those like Shardlow who are stung by them.
The jellyfish, found often in the Great Barrier Reef, can have as many as 15 tentacles on each corner of its bodies with nearly 5,000 stinging cells, according to a guide to sea creatures posted on the Great Barrier Reef site.
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Wow...kind of out there in left field aren't you?
"Every knee shall bow and tongue confess that jesus christ is gay..."
Well done, folks. Yet another comment board deteriorates into hate and name calling. I hope you all are proud of yourselves.
People will NOT change their mind about their beliefs no matter how much you try to prove there is or isn't a God. Non-believers do not understand the works of God. Very simply.....God is not a puppet master that sits on his throne controlling our every move. Someone has to ASK him to intervene. He doesn't ALLOW things to happen to people or prevent them unless he is ASKED! He gives us free will. This little girl had the free will to swim in the ocean. The jellyfish had the free will to swim in the ocean. The jellyfish was doing what comes natural. God intervened because we prayed for her. Believe it or not....make fun of it or not. It is the truth and just like you non-believers you will not convince me to believe your way. Someday you will see we are telling the truth about God and it will be too late. Go ahead and make fun of this also.....I don't care! Everyone stop trying to convince people to believe or not believe. Testify to those you meet but on something like this there is no use............to each his own!
Now that God has saved this girl, I hope it will free up more time for him to look over those poor boys who fall victim to his Irish priests, and others around the world. HA HA, come on God, get your shit together!
Who cares if it's God, Allah or science (her blood may produce a natural antivenom to Jellyfish stings previously unseen in humans). Leave your petty bickering (from both sides) out of it and be happy for her and her family.
I take this as irrefutable proof that Rachel is God! All Praise Rachel!!
God doesn't exist and never existed. Jesus Christ is fake. Muhammad is a lie and all the other religions in this world are worthless. It is a shame that we are living with such stone age people that still believe in God and superstition.
Ooh god helped her!!! OMG.. are you serious? lol.. wake up folks, this is 2010 not 10
To the individual who made the statment about atheists being angry at god:
How do you even think that's possible? That's like being angry at unicorns and fariies. Neither they nor god exists, so wasting any emotion any these creative characters is a waste of energy. Personally, I'm not even angry at religious types like you. Like my fellow atheists, I'm just stating the facts.
I am speaking on behalf of the One True Lord of this world, the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
He would like to extend His apologies to Rachel and her family for the dastardly attack committed by his distant Noodly cousin, the box jellyfish. He hopes that an attack by the box jellyfish's noodly appendages don't discourage her from seeking out the truth of His Noodliness, and that he hopes someday to touch her and her family with His Noodly Appendage.
In the name of the pasta and of the sauce and of the holy meatballs, in His name we braise. rAmen!
Why is (HE) GOD always masculine, something so big should be neither male or female, but an entity of creation.
My prayers go out to her and her family as she recovers. Thank the Lord that she survived. Something like this is an obvious miracle and boo to those that don't think so. I think her family would disagree.
"Want your proof atheists, explain this one?
Posted by: D. Solomon"
We will thank you! And we'll do it just fine without any magic sky fairies
Reality is so much more awesome than ignorant superstition can ever hope to be!
I've personally spent over 35 years scuba diving on coral reefs and I prefer to be stung by poisonous jellyfish any day to to dealing with ignorant god botherers!
Having said that I can't wait for the scientific explanation behind this tough little girl's survival.
That scientific knowledge will help a lot more people than all the time wasted praying for miracles!
Nimwits!
"Who cares if it's God, Allah or science (her blood may produce a natural antivenom to Jellyfish stings previously unseen in humans). Leave your petty bickering (from both sides) out of it and be happy for her and her family."
C'mon, you now you live for this kind of thing. Otherwise, you wouldn't have even commented.
For all those who say this is an act of god...how do you know this isn't the devil's work, and that he has a plan for her.