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Ohio man who suffered 20,000 bee-stings expected to recover, family says
Posted on 9/3/22 at 12:23 pm
Posted on 9/3/22 at 12:23 pm
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An Ohio man who was stung at least 20,000 times by bees – and even ingested some of the insects – during a mishap while he was cutting tree branches is expected to recover, according to his family.
Austin Bellamy, 20, climbed high into a lemon tree in Ripley, Ohio, last Friday to help trim it when he mistakenly cut into a bees’ nest, his mother, Shawna Carter, has recounted, in addition to authorities’ accounts of his injuries.
“When he started cutting them, that’s when the bees came out, and he tried to anchor himself down, and he couldn’t … He was hollering, ‘Help! Help me! Help!’ And nobody would help him,” his grandmother, Phyllis Edwards, told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
According to Carter, Bellamy was unable to get down from the tree because he was harnessed. Edwards watched from below alongside Bellamy’s uncle as they were unable to climb the ladder since they were also under attack by the bees.
“I was going to try and climb the ladder to get to Austin … I see how high he was … but I couldn’t get to him because I was surrounded [by] bees,” Edwards said.
Paramedics and the Ripley fire department responded to the scene and had to cut Bellamy out of the tree.
“He was just covered in bees … screaming and yelling, crying for help,” said Carter. “It was just too much for me to take. It looked like he had a black blanket on his head down to his neck, down to his arms.”
Carter said that the fire department told her that the bees were a hybrid of the western honeybee and east African lowland honeybee that is considered much more defensive than other bee varieties.
Emergency responders transported Bellamy to the University of Cincinnati medical center by helicopter where doctors discovered that he had also ingested about 30 bees.
Pictures posted on social media show Bellamy hooked up to a ventilator with eyes swollen shut and bee-stings covering his head, face and hands entirely.
“[The bees] left stingers like an inch long. When I rubbed his head on Friday before they airlifted him here, he felt like he was becoming a porcupine,” his mother told WCPO-TV, adding that he suffered kidney failure from the attack.
On Wednesday evening, Bellamy woke up from a medically induced coma and is expected to make a full recovery, Carter said.
“Austin is still currently in the hospital with breathing problems. His oxygen keeps dropping and he still can’t walk very well, still very wobbly but a lot of the swelling has gone down – a whole heck of a lot,” she said yesterday in an update on an online crowdfunding page set up to help him.
Posted on 9/3/22 at 12:27 pm to Jim Rockford
How do you even count that many bee stings on a human body?
Posted on 9/3/22 at 12:29 pm to Jim Rockford
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Carter said that the fire department told her that the bees were a hybrid of the western honeybee and east African lowland honeybee that is considered much more defensive than other bee varieties.
2 bans, 3 PMs
Posted on 9/3/22 at 12:29 pm to Jim Rockford
Movies and comics tell me he’ll come out of this with with some pretty radical superpowers. Are we seeing the genesis of Bee-Man?
Posted on 9/3/22 at 12:32 pm to Jim Rockford
"JUST SHOOT IN AMONGST US, ONE OF US HAS GOT TO HAVE SOME RELIEF!"
Posted on 9/3/22 at 12:33 pm to Jim Rockford
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Carter said that the fire department told her that the bees were a hybrid of the western honeybee and east African lowland honeybee that is considered much more defensive than other bee varieties.
If this bit is true, and this was in Ohio, that's pretty significant.
Posted on 9/3/22 at 12:35 pm to LegendInMyMind
This fricking idiot just killed 20,000 honeybees at a time when their population is already dwindling.
Posted on 9/3/22 at 12:36 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Carter said that the fire department told her that the bees were a hybrid of the western honeybee and east African lowland honeybee that is considered much more defensive than other bee varieties.
If this bit is true, and this was in Ohio, that's pretty significant.
I will defer to the fire department on lots of things but the species of bee is not one of them.
Also, who counted?
Posted on 9/3/22 at 12:37 pm to Jim Rockford
We’ve all seen videos or gifs that make us say, “man that was hard to watch”. But I think this is the first time I have ever found something that was actually hard to even read. Damn.
Posted on 9/3/22 at 12:37 pm to Jim Rockford
That must have needed a lot of EpiPens.
Posted on 9/3/22 at 12:37 pm to LegendInMyMind
Question while the topic is bees; what ever came of the African killer bees?
Posted on 9/3/22 at 12:40 pm to Cymry Teigr
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That must have needed a lot of EpiPens.
If he was allergic he would’ve been dead before they got him down from the tree.
Posted on 9/3/22 at 12:40 pm to armsdealer
Any bee if you cut into its nest is going to attack, regardless of what type of bee.
And the African honeybee has been in the US for decades. Most bees in the wild are probably hybrids of both European and African decent
And the African honeybee has been in the US for decades. Most bees in the wild are probably hybrids of both European and African decent
Posted on 9/3/22 at 12:42 pm to doubleb
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Question while the topic is bees; what ever came of the African killer bees?
More fearmonering….see COVID.
Posted on 9/3/22 at 12:43 pm to doubleb
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Question while the topic is bees; what ever came of the African killer bees?
You mean the Murder Hornets that popped up a month after Covid started?
Posted on 9/3/22 at 12:51 pm to Jim Rockford
After suffering through that, the man should have at least gotten super powers.
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