Monday, 23 November 2020

PRO/AH/EDR> Skin ulceration - Senegal (02): (DK, TH) fisherman, RFI

Other Human Disease -- Senegal
Could this be a jelly fish?
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Communicated by:
Susan Baekeland





[ProMED-mail thanks Susan Baekeland for her question.
It would be unusual for a poisonerous jelly fish or several jelly fish to affect so many at the same time. The so called "box jellyfish" or "class Cubozoa" are cnidarian invertebrates distinguished by their cube-shaped medusae, WikiPedia writes (). Although the notoriously dangerous species of box jellyfish are largely restricted to the tropical

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?7966209&promed&0

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