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Reaction Paper On Jellyfish

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Individually each one of them is considered as a drop, but together they make the ocean. I know we are all familiar from this creature. We have seen it in some movies, we have heard it in some of our lessons in science, but are we all aware that behind every creature there’s always a mysterious stuff about them. Jellyfish has been described from some articles as beautiful but deadly. Why? Last October 15 2015 there’s news from a 20-year-old German woman found dead after being stung multiple times by a box jellyfish at a tourist-popular Thai resort. The woman was pleasing an evening swim on Tuesday on the island of Koh Samui when she was stung by the jellyfish, whose venom can kill an adult within minutes. A friend of the woman, also a German tourist, was stung on the hand by a jellyfish but survived. There’s also an incident happened here in Malalag Davao Del Sur last January 4 2014, wherein an eight-year-old boy died after he was stung by a jellyfish while swimming at a beach resort. See how dangerous these creatures are? As I scroll out the internet, there’s lot news on how jellyfish sting humans, kill humans. And so I decided to conduct a research paper so I can share some of information on what to do whenever they encounter this creature. This also may give us idea on how jellyfish becomes dangerous and the treatments for it. So it resulted to my research question 1. “What are the dangerous effects of jellyfish to humans and how can these be treated?” First we need

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