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'Best Job' winner stung by jellyfish

China Daily | Updated: 2009-12-31 07:52

Sting of peanut-sized venomous creature can lead to heart failure

ADELAIDE, Australia: Trouble struck paradise this week when a British man who has the "Best Job in the World" as the caretaker of a tropical Australian island was stung by a potentially lethal jellyfish.

Ben Southall - who won a contest to blog for six months about life on Australia's Hamilton Island to promote tourism - wrote on Tuesday that he was lucky to have survived his brush with the extremely venomous Irukandji jellyfish.

'Best Job' winner stung by jellyfish

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