Australian teenager dies after being stung by box jellyfish
Local media have reported that it’s regarded as the primary dying from a box jellyfish sting in 15 years.
Queensland Police confirmed to CNN on Thursday that they had been getting ready a report for the coroner following the sudden dying of the 17-year-old, from Bamaga.
The boy was transported to hospital on February 22 after the incident, and died on March 1, police mentioned.
A spokesperson for the Royal Flying Doctor Service, an air medical service in Australia, instructed CNN in an announcement that crew stabilized the affected person in Bamaga earlier than transferring him to Townsville Hospital on February 22.
Named after their physique form, box jellyfish have tentacles lined in small, poison loaded darts, generally known as nematocysts.
The Australian number of the creature has a physique measurement which might attain as much as one foot in diameter and tentacles which might develop as much as 10 ft lengthy.
“The recent incident at Bamaga is a timely warning to take precautions when swimming in the sea in any northern waters,” Marlow Coates, Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service northern director of medical companies, mentioned in an announcement.
“We are seeing sightings of both box jellyfish and jellyfish that cause Irukandji syndrome in our waters,” he mentioned.
Coates mentioned that swimmers ought to put on protecting clothes like lycra fits or wetsuits, and keep out of the water if they didn’t have protecting gear.
Authorities added {that a} main Chironex sting is “immediately and excruciatingly painful” and “should be considered life threatening.”
