Just awful nightmare fuel out of Laos.
Via Metro:
A teenage boy and his father suffered hundreds of killer Asian giant hornet stings as they zip-lined on an adventure holiday.
Daniel Owen, 47, and his son Cooper, 15, died from their injuries after they were attacked by a swarm of killer insects at their Laos adventure resort on October 15.
The Americans and their guide were overcome by the flying killers as they tried to zip line down some tropical trees.
The pair were reportedly rushed to the hospital in critical condition, where a doctor observed "a lot of stings, more than one hundred," over their bodies.
Neither Daniel nor Cooper Owen appears to have been allergic to the stings, but as Metro points out, victims of Asian giant hornets can die from the physical trauma of a "mass attack" of the insects even if they don't go into anaphylactic shock over them.
Father and son were plainly close; a recent Facebook post showed them bouldering together in the U.S.
Research shows the bugs are spread out across Asia, though of course they've begun to migrate elsewhere, including to the U.S.
Though they are not more dangerous than European-style hornets, they pose significant risks outside of Asia due to their being "an aggressive predator of native insects [and] a significant threat to honey bees and other pollinators."
Awful stuff.
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