A BAND of brave volunteers has shown that an anti-jellyfish cream does reduce the chances of being stung.
A team at Stanford University School of Medicine in California cut off the tentacles of the box jellyfish found off the US, whose stings are extremely painful and can even kill children. Then they draped 5-centimetre lengths over volunteers’ arms for a few seconds. On arms slathered with the cream, only three of 12 volunteers were stung, whereas 10 were stung when tentacles were applied to the other arm (Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, vol 15, p 102).
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