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Pain researchers find antidote to deadly box jellyfish sting

 

1 May 2019

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A team of pain researchers in the Charles Perkins Centre studied the most venomous creature on earth to learn how venom works and what causes pain.

 

Researchers at the University of Sydney have discovered an antidote to the deadly sting delivered by the most venomous creature on earth – the Australian box jellyfish.

 

The Australian box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri) has about 60 tentacles that can grow up to three metres long. Each tentacle has millions of microscopic hooks filled with venom.

 

Each box jellyfish carries enough venom to kill more than 60 humans.

 

A single sting to a human will cause necrosis of the skin, excruciating pain and, if the dose of venom is large enough, cardiac arrest and death within minutes.

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2019/05/01/pain-researchers-find-antidote-to-deadly-box-jellyfish-sting.html