A BAND of brave volunteers has shown that an anti-jellyfish
cream does reduce the chances of being stung. A team at Stanford
University School of Medicine in California cut off the
tentacles of the box jellyfish found off the US, whose stings
are extremely painful and can even kill children. Then they
draped 5-centimetre lengths over volunteers' arms for a few
seconds. On arms slathered with the cream, only three of 12
volunteers were stung, whereas 10 were stung when tentacles were
applied to the other arm ( The exact make-up of the cream, made
by Nidaria Technology, is secret, but it is designed to fool a
jellyfish's stinging cells, making them respond to skin coated
with it as if it was their own. But if jellyfish are likely to
be more than a mild irritant, staying out of the water or
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