Invisible Silent Killer from Australia – Irukandji Jellyfish

By Angel | January 20, 2009 4:41 am |
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Today I would like to interrupt my cute-sweet posts and share with you some extremely interesting and dangerous information. Yesterday I saw a great and tragic movie about the Irukandji jellyfish. I have never heard about it before, but the following jellyfish is a silent, mysterious, and the main danger – almost INVISIBLE killer found, that inhabits waters of northern Australia.

Irukandji Jellyfish

The Irukandji is believed to be the most venomous creature in the world and the main point – you can’t notice it, since this killer is not more than 3 cm long and the whole body of this small creature is covered with poisonous cells!!!

The term Irukandji refers to an Australian Aboriginal tribe – these people suffered from the so-called Irukandji syndrome very often.

Sting syndroms are awful and a person can die in a couple of hours. The sting results in pain and welts. For the first 10 minutes a person feels nothing more than a painful irritant but in the following 5 minutes the pain becomes unbearable and it is too late to save a life.

Irukandji Jellyfish 

First aid

First of all, treat with suspicion all unexpected pain, no matter how unimportant it seems. First aid must be quickl. Then visit a hospital for a more thorough check. Unfortunately, no exact treatment is currently available for the Irukandji syndrome.

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Invisible Silent Killer from Australia – Irukandji Jellyfish

  • Joy | January 23rd, 2009 at 8:49 pm

    Thanks for this. We better be more careful now :)

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