A main school-aged woman has turn into the fifth baby airlifted to hospital from Fraser Island with suspected Irukandji jellyfish stings previously fortnight.
The woman was swimming within the ocean close to a preferred creek when she was stung on her decrease again and leg.
Her mother and father used vinegar and water on the stings earlier than the RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter landed on a seaside on the western facet of the island about 6.30pm on Saturday.
The Bundaberg-based chopper flew the woman in a steady situation to Hervey Bay Hospital for remedy.
She is the fifth baby the chopper has airlifted from Ok’gari with suspected Irukandji jellyfish stings these college holidays, with three younger women additionally hospitalized on December 27.
The trio included two sisters, aged 5 and 9, who had been taking part in in a creek on the western facet of the island once they had been stung.
They had been airlifted to Hervey Bay Hospital in a steady situation, as was the third woman who was stung on the chest by an Irukandji jellyfish in the identical creek simply an hour earlier than.
The following day, a boy was stung on the leg – additionally whereas swimming within the creek.
Extraordinarily venomous
The LifeFlight rescue chopper once more landed on the seaside the place the boy was together with his household and different vacationers.
He was flown to Hervey Bay Hospital in a steady situation.
The Irukandji jellyfish is a small, extraordinarily venomous species of field jellyfish about two centimeters in diameter, making it troublesome to note within the water.
Signs of being stung embrace capturing pains within the muscle tissues, chest and stomach; nausea; vomiting and respiration difficulties.
One other 4 folks had been taken to the hospital from Fraser Island on Sunday, one through rescue chopper, after a car rollover about 7.45am close to Dilli Village.
-AAP
