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Deadly Jellyfish Warning: Get With the Program Phuket!

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Phuket Wan tourism news reported today (24/8/2013) that Thai researchers who have released online a scientific paper on dangerous jellyfish in Thailand have called for more to be done in Phuket and around Thailand.

Official Thai Warning of Dangerous Monsoon Bloom

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BANGKOK, 3 June 2013 (NNT) – The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources are warning tourists of possible jellyfish attacks in southern coastal provinces during the rainy season. 

Boxies Filmed Metres Off Kata Beach Phuket

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Videos have emerged on Youtube showing box jellyfish being filmed during night dives off the popular west coast of Phuket. Experienced diver Joe Blasy filmed box jellyfish on three occasions around 20-50m off the coast of Kata Beach in recent months and posted his amazing encounters on Youtube.

Koh Chang Opts for Jellyfish Safety

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Koh Chang joins a growing list of other Thai beach resort and fishing areas that have taken the initiative to improve water safety for all users.

One Serious Sting Treated Daily at Philippines Hospital

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"Everything was perfect. We were playing in the shallow water, looking for shells and little fish when, suddenly, Nela started to scream like in a hell. We had no idea what happened but brought her onto the beach right away. The boatman knew it already. In the same second he started to yell in his language, looking for vinegar in the first-aid set (but he didn’t find it!) while his helper found the killer in the water."

Is the Tide Officially Turning in Malaysia?

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Very encouraging news out of Malaysia who for years has failed to fully and effectively engage with reality regarding its box jellyfish problem.

The Real Story of a Sting

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While fatalities - we're told - tell us about the severity and scale of a problem, grabbing the headlines with the shocking statistics of war, road, disaster, disease, massacre; those figures can remove us from the awful lingering reality of the fact that for every death there is more often than not a great number of injuries.

Tour of Duty of Carelessness - Filipino Guide Stung

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Gerry the Guide is stung by a small box jellyfish in the Philippines A VLOG by Matt thatnikonguy published on Youtube in August 2012 of island hopping during his Philippines trip shows a group walking through shallows where the tour guide Gerry is stung by a box jellyfish.

Untold Pain in the Philippines

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The Philippines has not to date been a focus of this blog though reference has been made to it's box jellyfish problem that scientific records show was first acknowledged over 100 years ago in the Subic Bay area. As if on some sort of cruel cue, a recent serious sting sadly signalled that record's centenary.

Phuket Installs Jellyfish Treatment Vinegar Poles & Signs

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Phuketwan , Phuket's independent English-speaking online newspaper, reports today that "the Phuket Marine Biological Centre and Phuket Public Health have set up jellyfish awareness posters and sting treatment stations along Phuket's popular west coast beaches."

Kood Be A Lifesaver ...

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Lining up like guards on duty in their shiny new suits with first aid hats, these vinegar poles are being prepared for installation on Koh Kood.