Milking venom to save lives


Seymour working in his shed in the Queensland city of Cairns and (pic, below) extracting venom from a stone fish. — AFP

IMAGINE feeling like an elephant is sitting on your chest, you can’t breathe, there’s a sense of impending doom and the pain is so intense you want to die.

You’ve just been stung by a tiny Irukandji jellyfish.

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