Many people are amazed that 10-year-old Rachel Shardlow is alive. The Australian girl was swimming off the north coast of Queensland earlier this week when she was stung by an Australian box jellyfish -- believed to be the world's most venomous creature. Shardlow's 13-year-old brother pulled her from the water, and she fell unconscious only moments later. Miraculously, she survived, her only apparent injuries being severe scarring on her leg (pictured below), caused by a combination of the jellyfish's harpoon-like tentacles and the highly lethal venom, as well as some short-term memory loss. Shardlow was lucky. Some say her survival has rewritten medical history, comparing it to the three people worldwide who have survived rabies, which is fatal in almost all cases. |
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