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UH devises box jellyfish sting treatment

PHOTO BY KEOKI STENDER
photo by Keoki Stender University of Hawaii at Manoa assistant research professor Angel Yanagihara dived to collect box jellyfish off Waikiki. Being stung by a swarm of the creatures off Kaimana Beach in Waikiki in 1997 left her bedridden for three days and spurred her study of the biochemistry of their toxin.