Boy, 5, stung forty times by hundreds of bees walking through nature reserve
A five-year-old boy was stung forty times by hundreds of bees while walking with his family through a nature reserve.
The child was walking along the Withrow Nature Preserve in Ohio, with his brother Theo Spears, 14, and his grandmother, mum and his three younger brothers and sisters when the scary incident happened.
According to Theo, when his brother flipped over a log, hundreds of bees began swarming the family. Theo's dad quickly ran over after hearing his wife yell for help after saying their son had been stung around 40 times.
Anderson Township Fire Department were called to the scene and before Danny had even arrived, the children were sitting in the ambulance making sure they were unharmed.
The boy was stung over 40 times (Fox19)“I pulled up here and they had fire trucks, two life squads here, and they already had my kids sitting in the back of the life squads making sure they were okay,” Danny told Fox19.
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The dad revealed two strangers risked being stung to help his distressed family who were pleading for help as the bees followed them before a woman gave Theo and his sister shelter from the swarming bees.
“There was this one lady, Maggie, she’s a lifeguard who works at a pool and she let us sit in the back of her car,” Theo said. “She found my sister Lulu and she was sitting in the back of her car. So I’d like to thank her for that.”
Theo's dad Danny quickly rushed over to help his family (Fox19)The bee attack comes just weeks after an 81-year-old man was left in agony with a broken hip after he was swarmed by over 200 "killer bees" for three hours.
Carlos Amos, from Maysville, US, was mowing the garden at his home last Friday when a vicious swarm of Africanised bees charged at him - leaving the pensioner with painful stings all across his body. The bees were stuck in his ear, flew up his nose, and even went in his eye during the three hour attack.
Theo said his brother was walking through the nature reserve when the attack happened (Fox19)He was also left in a tremendous amount of pain after he fell over and broke his hip while trying to escape the bees. Fortunately, a group of men came to his rescue and tried to fend off the bees.
One neighbour immediately called 911 and Carlos was rushed to Norman Regional Hospital for urgent treatment. According to one doctor who treated him, he was lucky to be alive as the stings can lead to life-threatening swelling which can block the airways.
The swarm of bees attacked the family (Getty Images/iStockphoto)Carlos told local television station KOCO 5 News: "I took a tissue out, stuck it in this ear, and more of them got in this ear, so I got those out then when I put tissues in there, and then they were in my nose.
"I was there about three hours, but a fella from Burford Company showed up, and the first thing I did was I asked him what’s your name, and he said, "Oh my gosh, they’re stinging me now."' Medics said Carlos was lucky his airways did not start to close from the attack as the consequences could have been fatal.
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