How far south could the deadly Irukandji jellyfish travel on Queensland beaches? | ABC News
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- Queensland scientists say a lack of funding is the only thing standing in the way of determining how far south the potentially deadly Irukandji jellyfish will travel.
New DNA technology could answer speculation that the northern Irukandji is migrating down the coast as water temperatures increase with climate change.
Last year, the number of people hospitalised because of Irukandji stings surged, and there are calls for local councils to step up monitoring programs.
Dea Clark reports.
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When I was in kindergarten my teacher asked me what I did over the weekend.
My response: "I went to the beach and got stung by a jelly bean!!!"
To make it even worse, later that day my teacher calls my mom to tell her! I've never heard the end of that 1.🙄
Jelly Bean..
Lol
Dumb mom, dumb teacher, thanks America, smh.
This is what happens when we build on the coasts disturbing the turtle habitats. No one to eat the jellies.....
The Chinese will eat them, just send over more Chinese people. Problem solved.
The jellyfish mostly exist in unpopulated areas.
Yes I agree, we don't do enough to help our Turtles.
Especially when they are Babies.
Nature documentaries always video tape them being eaten.
All they need is a little help & protection.
No, this is what happens when you ship your prisoners onto an island 😂
Here’s the catch 22: Jellyfish’s population increases with the rise in sewerage dumping... which is mainly caused by the tourism industry.
I'm never going to Fraser Island - they've got dingoes, Funnel Webs, Great Whites, and now Irukandji?!? Fuhgeddaboutit!
If Frazer Island does have funnel web spiders, they will not be Sydney funnel webs so relax. And the dingoes are just small dogs. Sharks are hardly an issue but Irukandji are a worry (to me anyway). I was stung by its big brother, Chironex fleckeri in Madang Harbour in Papua New Guinea in 1996. That was the most horrible envenomation I have ever had. I don't ever want that again.
From the thumbnail, I thought this was something else.
Dear Australians, I absolutely love your humor, your culture and the scenic points of your continent, but my god EVERYTHING on your continent can kill you lol!!
It would be great to know how much further north they move, if at all, during periods of cooler water temps (winter and spring). I’d fund that.
here in the Philippines, we treat it with white vinegar (datu puti vinegar or equivalent) just pour it on top of the affected skin. the sooner you treat it after being stunned, the better. hope this little info would help a lot.
Thanks Joe, but vinegar does not work for venom, smh.
What vinegar does is that it stops the non-active stinging cells, still atached to the skin, from activating, meaning a reduction in the amount of venom injected into the casualty ...
... but what it does nothing for is the already activated stinger cells, and the venom injected into the casualty by those cells. In some cases, not even morphine, at a maximum permitted doseage for each individual patient, can even take the edge off the pain.
Being a person with a chronic, acute, pain condition, that affects my lower back, and the whole length of the sciatic nerve, pain is an old friend ... but watching a research scientist, whom, despite taking all precautions, was stung by a jellyfish, with a bell no bigger than a thumbnail, in writhing agony, to the point of nearly screaming, was beyond even my experience of pain. I hope that, instead of morphine, they switched to fentanyl, instead, as clearly whatever she was on, wasn't working to even alleviate a tiny fraction of the pain. Just as bad was her going from full body hot flushes to cold sweats, and back again.
So, whilst the vinegar prevents further stinging, and so should be used as soon as the person exits the water, it does nothing for the venom already injected, and starting to take hold of their body. I don't know how true this is, but, apparently, deactivating the stinging cells before they fire, in some case, reduces the recovery time.
In short, keep using vinegar, but know it only provides temporary relief, whilst you wait for the ambulance to arrive ...
I just snorkeled at Fitzroy island 3 days ago
Isn’t it true that irukandji deaths are often misdiagnosed as heart attacks, strokes and drownings. The irukandji actually causes heart attacks and strokes. And there is no sign of the sting.
Yes, its the new covid.
Yes I think the numbers have been massaged for economic reasons. No way in the world would I go into the water up here in NQ without a full stinger suit.
Pretty much, yes ...
Hence why it is so misunderstood, especially in the early stages, as the symptoms overlap with so many other issues, such is how meningitis was, and sometimes is still, mistaken for a bad cold/'flu ...
Not so much 'heart attacks' as such but one of the best-known victims, Robert King, died from cerebral hemorrhage (a type of stroke) due to extremely high blood pressure caused by the irukandji.
0:25 anyone wanna explain the metal Cage?
I'm guessing it is a trauma/recovery stretcher, used to recover casualties from physically dangerous situations, and thus is there to protect the head & neck from any/further physical injury ...
[Edit: as she was airlifted into a hovering helicopter, the person physically guiding the stretcher up is wearing a full helicopter helmet. As the downwash from the main rotor blades can be pretty fierce, on the way up, to stop the casualty's head/neck from smacking into the helicopter itself ...]
The seas and oceans are their homes. Swim in the pool and you’ll be right
Yes but then you have to watch out for the pool noodles
0:47 wonder if anything to do with length of tentacles, or bodies blood type or metabolism.
People that live in Bundaberg😟
I just got back from Fitzroy island ehh
soon the seas will be jelly fish heavens
Does this put the death of Steve Irwin into another light ?
No, not really, although I know what you meant ...
... rather, he was stabbed directly into the heart, by a stingray tail barb. Aside from being pretty tough, because both sides are serated, it would be like being stabbed, into the center of the heart with a kitchen knife ...
... but don't take my word for it. There's an interview with his diving partner at the time, whom not only is a toxicologist, but a leading expert on Box Jellyfish, and is trying to get funding to do far more research on the Iurkandji Jellyfish, of which there's only three, or four, named species, but nobody knows how many exist ...
I got stung by at least a few of big jellyfish and I had immediately big spots and swelling where i was bit, bloody hurt like hell and it was just a few stings, but these little suckers can nip and bite at you like parahnas, swarm attack like. I can imagine the human body shutting down or heart attacks from these swarm stingers Irukandjii.
damm
Kill off and over hunt through big predators in the ocean, you end up with the lower levels over populating and going unchecked.
This is the kind of un expected outcome of climate change.
bang on Daniel.. bang on...
Lol no it's always been a problem
@@HarvardAlumni2022 yes but we are talkin about them.spreading south not that they exist,)
Mate I'm from Sydney I think I'm a little bit more qualified to speak on the subject
@ Carwyn Murphy.
Sorry, what qualifications do you have ? Other than your post code. I guess the ABC should've just asked you. Thanks for the lolz !
The moral of this story? Stay away from Australia!!!
TRACKING THEM……..? DEVELOP a method to kill them. ASAP
... yet we don't know how much of a part it plays in a local ecosystem, nor even how many species exist. If you kill them all, what would the unexpected consequences be ...?
Irukandji are tiny and so highly venemous they aren't great food to many species. Not enough protein to dent ecosystems that badly.