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

Other Human Disease — Senegal
Could this be a jelly fish?

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