Octopus Attack Sends Woman to Hospital

A woman in her 30s was hospitalized in Australia after being bitten twice on the stomach by a highly venomous blue-ringed octopus while swimming at Chinamans Beach in New South Wales. The venom of the octopus contains tetrodotoxin, a neurotoxin that can cause respiratory arrest, heart failure, paralysis, blindness, and death from suffocation. Despite their small size, a single blue-ringed octopus carries enough venom to kill 26 adult humans within minutes. The victim is reportedly in stable condition, and the culprit octopus was captured by the ambulance service.