Kristie Cataffo-O’Brien was relaxing at a Florida beach when she says she was impaled by a venomous stingray.
“I started becoming hysterical just knowing that it was not alive in me anymore and the barb was still on me,” said O’Brien.In the GoFundMe description, the woman’s family said she may suffer from nerve damage as a result of the injury.
According to the National Capital Poison Center, there are between 1,500 and 2,000 stingray injuries in the United States every year. Most of these cases are non-fatal, generally resulting from the puncture rather than the poison of the rod. “It's really only when you have a stingray barb hit a major organ and cause a massive injury that they can be deadly,” said Mike Heithaus, a marine life expert.Stock image of a southern stingray in crystal clear water., the renowned Australian crocodile hunter who was killed by a stingray in 2006 while filming in the Great Barrier Reef.
“This stingray tried to pull a Steve Irwin,” O’Brien wrote on Instagram. “I have never been so scared and actually thought I was going to die.”
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