A 20-year-old man is in a coma after being stung more than 20,000 times by killer bees in the United States, his family and local media reported on Wednesday (August 31).
Tuesday evening, Austin Bellamy remained under life support and was plunged into a coma voluntarily at the medical center of the university of Cincinnati, in Ohio (north), according to the local television channel Fox 19. He “fight for his life“, had specified his mother Shawna Carter on the page of a fundraiser created Monday to pay for his medical care.
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On Friday morning, Austin Bellamy was pruning a lemon tree when he unknowingly cut down a nest of killer bees. These insects, also called Africanized bees, are known to be particularly aggressive. Austin Bellamy’s grandmother and uncle, who were next door, watched the attack unresponsive, being swarmed by the bees themselves, according to Fox 19.He was screaming, “Help! Help me! Help!”, and no one could help him“, recounted his grandmother Phyllis Edwards. “I was gonna try to climb the ladder to reach Austin” but “I couldn’t join him because I was surrounded by bees“, she said.
The young man was stung more than 20,000 times and ingested about 30 bees, said Shawna Carter. Caregivers had toextract bees from him until Sunday morningShe told Fox 19. Doctors believe Austin Bellamy will make a full recovery, according to the local outlet.
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