A 20-year-old man is in a coma after being stung more than 20,000 times by killer bees in the United States, his family and local media reported Wednesday.
As of Tuesday night, Austin Bellamy remained on life support and in a self-induced coma at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Ohio, according to local television station Fox 19.
He is “fighting for his life,” his mother, Shawna Carter, said on a fundraising page set up Monday to pay for his medical care.
He ate 30 bees.
On Friday morning, Austin Bellamy was trimming a lemon tree when he unknowingly cut down a nest of killer bees. These insects, also called Africanized bees, are known to be particularly aggressive.
Austin Bellamy’s grandmother and uncle, who were nearby, witnessed the attack without being able to intervene, being surrounded by the bees themselves, according to Fox 19.
“He was screaming, ‘Help! Help me! Help!’ and no one could help him,” his grandmother Phyllis Edwards said. “I was going to try to climb the ladder to get to Austin,” but “I couldn’t reach her because she was surrounded by bees,” she said.
The youngster was stung more than 20,000 times and ingested about 30 bees, Shawna Carter said. Doctors had to “take the bees out until Sunday morning,” she told Fox 19. Doctors believe Austin Bellamy will make a full recovery, according to the local outlet.
Source: BFM TV
