Anne Curtis was rushed to a hospital after she was stung by box jellyfish while taping the fantasy series "Dyesebel" on Wednesday night.
In a statement given to ABS-CBN News, "Dyesebel" producer Dreamscape Entertainment Televisione said Curtis was brought to hospitals in San Juan and Lipa in Batangas before she was taken to the St. Luke's Medical Center at the Bonifacio Global City, where she is now confined.
Curtis said she has been reading about box jellyfish and she considers herself lucky that the sting wasn’t fatal. “This summer be careful when swimming in the ocean keep an eye out,” she advised.
Box jellyfish (class Cubozoa) are cnidarian invertebrates distinguished by their cube-shaped medusae. Some species of box jellyfish produce extremely potent venom: Chironex fleckeri, Carukia barnesi and Malo kingi are among the most venomous creatures in the world. Stings from these and a few other species in the class are extremely painful and sometimes fatal to humans.
Although the box jellyfish has been called "the world's most venomous creature", only a few species in the class have been confirmed to be involved in human deaths, and some species pose no serious threat at all.
Box jellyfish are known as the "suckerpunch" of the sea not only because their sting is rarely detected until the venom is injected, but also because they are almost transparent.
Wearing pantyhose or full body lycra suits during diving (both by women and men, also under scuba-diving suit) is an effective protection against box jellyfish stings. The pantyhose were formerly thought to work because of the length of the box jellyfish's stingers (nematocysts), but it is now known to be related to the way the stinger cells work. The stinging cells on a box jellyfish's tentacles are not triggered by touch, but are instead triggered by the chemicals found on skin.
Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/04/03/14/anne-curtis-hospital-after-jellyfish-sting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_jellyfish
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