Koh Phangan Near-Fatal Box Jellyfish Sting
Zoe Cahill, a 23-year old Australian, was 50-metres offshore at Zen Beach on Koh Phangan in October 2023 when she swam into a box jellyfish and received excruciating life-threatening stings. Alone in shock and agony, crying and screaming, Zoe summoned all of her courage and strength and somehow managed to get back to land, collapsed and critically began to turn blue. Desperate first-responders frantically doused her in litres of vinegar while a nurse performed CPR and, after restoring vital signs, she was rushed to the local hospital. An emergency speed-boat transported Zoe to Koh Samui where with extreme sting damage to limbs and torso she remained in a hospital bed for a month. Zoe's story as covered in mainstream media including Australia's 9 News and related to thousands of her @zoe_cahill Instagram followers on social media is another cautionary tale of survival with box jellyfish in South-East Asia. The great news for Zoe, her loved ones and her followers is that