{"id":1526890,"date":"2022-06-23T14:19:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T18:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526890"},"modified":"2022-06-23T14:19:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T18:19:27","slug":"florida-catfish-stabs-small-child-in-the-chest-fire-authorities-airlift-victim-to-nearby-hosptial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-catfish-stabs-small-child-in-the-chest-fire-authorities-airlift-victim-to-nearby-hosptial\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Catfish Stabs Small Child in the Chest, Fire Authorities Airlift Victim to Nearby Hosptial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-catfish-stabs-small-child-in-the-chest-fire-authorities-airlift-victim-to-nearby-hosptial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526890&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Florida catfish stabbed a child under 10 in the chest on Monday, prompting authorities to rush the victim to a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n<p>While on a fishing trip in New Port Richey, a suburban city along the Gulf of Mexico in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area, the catfish spines pierced the child\u2019s chest cavity approximately 1-1.5 inches causing shortness of breath, local authorities said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PascoFireRescue\/status\/1538963756159537156\">tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the incident occurred, the child\u2019s mother dialed 911, with Pasco Fire Rescue responding and listing the child as a trauma alert.<\/p>\n<p>Pasco County Fire Rescue shared footage of the helicopter transporting the child to St Joseph\u2019s hospital in Tampa in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PascoFireRescue\/status\/1538957261644644352\">tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/5604036\/catfish-florida-fishing-trip-child-stabbed-chest\/\">The Sun<\/a>, the department\u2019s PIO Corey Dierdoff said that although the child remains in stable condition, it\u2019s unknown whether the catfish was venomous.<\/p>\n<p>Dierdorff described the incident to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/local\/pascocounty\/florida-child-stabbed-catfish\/67-da2d769c-ba00-46fe-9054-0038cbe9cd20\">WTSP-TV<\/a> as \u201cvery odd,\u201d saying he\u2019s \u201cnever heard of anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou hear of fisherman that might be cut by a barb or hit in the back of the leg and get an infection, but never heard of one penetrating the chest,\u201d Dierdoff said.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2009 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/article\/venomous-catfish-species-news-animals\">report<\/a>\u00a0by National Geographic, roughly half of the 3,000 catfish species contain venom.<\/p>\n<p>Biologist Jeremy Wright, who conducted the study, concluded that \u201cthe venom and microscopic tissue structures of 158 catfish species. . . . at least 1,250 to 1,625 catfish species are likely venomous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wright said North America\u2019s toxic catfish population has \u201crelatively mild venom,\u201d but other species are venomless\u2014like flathead catfish. However, Wright noted a few are \u201cdangerous enough to kill a human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Wright, catfish only use venom \u201cstrictly for defense\u201d rather than hunting.<\/p>\n<p>National Geographic added, \u201cwhen a catfish feels threatened by a bigger fish, it can pop out the collapsible spines that usually lie close to its sides, making its body wider and harder to swallow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sharp spines of the catfish cut inside the predator\u2019s mouth when a bigger fish attacks it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, pressure on the spines causes them to shift at their bases, ripping the skin over adjacent venom glands. Venom spills out and into the predator\u2019s mouth wounds,\u201d National Geographic reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida catfish stabbed a child under 10 in the chest on Monday, prompting authorities to rush the victim to a nearby hospital. While on a fishing trip in New Port Richey, a suburban city along the Gulf of Mexico in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area, the catfish spines pierced the child\u2019s chest cavity approximately 1-1.5 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1526956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1526956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}