Six folks injured in suspected Irukandji jellyfish stings on Okay’gari

Amongst these sufferers had been a child lady who was airlifted to Hervey Bay Hospital and a boy on vacation together with his household who misplaced feeling in his legs.

Eight-year-old Tenzin was taking part in within the water on Okay’gari when he instantly started screaming in ache.

“It felt like he was being stung from the within after which inside possibly 5 minutes he stated he was complaining of chest ache and at that time, I used to be extraordinarily fearful,” his mum, Kristy Te Mana, advised 9News.

He began vomiting, and stated he could not really feel his legs.

On considered one of them had been three tiny pink marks, suspected of being the stings.

“It was fairly scary, and I simply tried to stay calm,” Te Mana stated.

Tenzin is considered one of six sufferers struggling suspected Irukandji stings on Okay’gari since Saturday.

Most had been on the island’s west coast.

Yesterday, a child lady was stung close to Awinya Creek, the place paramedics handled her earlier than she was flown to Hervey Bay Hospital in a secure situation with a mum or dad.

Simply two hours earlier, emergency companies had been known as to the identical location after a person additionally suffered a suspected Irukandji sting.

He was additionally airlifted to Hervey Bay Hospital.

A teenage lady was stung on the hand in the identical location as we speak.

The Irukandji is an especially venomous, tiny and uncommon kind of field jellyfish present in northern waters from Bundaberg in Queensland all the way in which to Geraldton in Western Australian.

It’s most typical in additional tropical waters – in Queensland’s north and much north, however scientists consider they might be catching a experience south on what’s generally known as the east Australian present.

“That might doubtlessly be a little bit of a freeway that might distribute a few of these species from the northern a part of Queensland into the southern waters,” Professor Kylie Pitt from Griffith College stated.

Guests to Okay’gari have been suggested to not swim within the space, whereas researchers are calling for extra funding amid fears local weather change may push the jellyfish even additional south.

Additionally on Okay’gari as we speak, a dingo accountable for a number of assaults – together with biting two youngsters – was euthanised.