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Some more hopeful information about this little bugger:
It's not ACTUALLY venomous. As in it doesn't inject you with a lethal substance, rather, it injects you with a nerve-toxin which disables your ability to open/close your lungs, which kills you. This sounds just as bad, but it means if you can get to a hospital, and make it to a ventilator, you'll be back to normal by the next day.
Venom doesn’t need to be lethal to be venom.
Venom is a toxin produced by an animal that is actively delivered through a wound by means of a bite, sting, or similar action.
Blue Ringed octopuses are venomous.
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The scary part is that it looks like you won't even feel that you have been bitten, and will know that when you start having problems breathing, and when that happens every second counts.
Looking at the colors, it looks like it was in fight mode. The person holding it could already be dead.