An influencer who had a run-in with the world\u2019s most venomous creature while on vacation in the tropics is lucky to have escaped with her life and a scar.<\/p>\n
Travel blogger Julie was wading through shallow water in the Philippines and filming content for a brand collab when she suddenly felt \u201cexcruciating pain\u201d in her upper thigh.<\/a><\/p>\n She had been stung by a deadly box jellyfish and claimed the pain was unlike anything she\u2019d ever felt before.<\/p>\n \u201cI think I was screaming for like an hour, my voice was gone nearly because I was screaming so much, that\u2019s how bad the pain was,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Julie encountered the world\u2019s most venomous creature while vacationing in the Philippines \u2014 the box jellyfish. Instagram\/julieanddaniel__<\/p>\n The young Irish national described the pain as a burning feeling, like a hot iron was being pressed to her thigh, while she could also feel the venom passing through her stomach, arms, and head as it made its way through her system. <\/p>\n At one point, she thought she might be having a heart attack or a panic attack.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was scary because we were on a remote island two hours away from any land, there\u2019s no signal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Travel blogger Julie was wading through water in the Philippines and filming content for a brand collab when she suddenly felt \u201cexcruciating pain\u201d in her upper thigh. TikTok\/julieanddaniel_<\/p>\n Julie was on a tourist expedition from the remote island of Coron to El Nido, a municipality on the much larger Palawan island, and thankfully, there was an Australian doctor and nurse aboard the boat she was travelling on. <\/p>\n