{"id":15996,"date":"2013-03-25T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/australian-stinger-myths-irukandji-jellyfish\/"},"modified":"2013-03-25T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T11:04:00","slug":"australian-stinger-myths-irukandji-jellyfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/03\/australian-stinger-myths-irukandji-jellyfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Stinger Myths &#8211; Irukandji jellyfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<span><span lang=\"EN-NZ\"><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/images.brisbanetimes.com.au\/2009\/12\/04\/945381\/irukandji600-600x400.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/images.brisbanetimes.com.au\/2009\/12\/04\/945381\/irukandji600-600x400.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Did you know? <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Irukandji jellyfish are found around the world and Australia leads the world in pro-active awareness and risk management<\/li>\n<li>Only 5 people are known to have died from Irukandji over the past 100 years <\/li>\n<li>If you wear a \u201cstinger-suit\u201d you have over 75% protection <\/li>\n<li>Wearing a stinger suit also protects you from the sun and it takes longer to burn through it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Compare this to: <\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>300 people killed by road accidents per annum in Queensland alone<\/li>\n<li>Fatal snake bites in Australia: 1\/year<\/li>\n<li>Australian bee sting deaths 1980-1990: 20<\/li>\n<li>Australian lightning deaths 1980-1990: 20<\/li>\n<li>Number of people killed at Disneyland: 9<\/li>\n<li>American food allergy deaths per year: 150-200<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Every summer there are predictions and threats that we are in for the worst stinger season for years.  Dr Lisa-Ann Gershwin, a Townsville-based stinger researcher, has once again predicted a bad stinger season for this summer.  Emily Smart, marine biologist with the Fantasea Foundation says, \u201cthere are a lot of myths and scare-tactics in relation to these tiny marine animals and the Whitsunday Shire Council in unison with other local operators has produced a poster to inform the public about the irunkandji jellyfish, how to protect yourself when in the water and what to do in the case of a sting.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know? Irukandji jellyfish are found around the world and Australia leads the world in pro-active awareness and risk management Only 5 people are known to have died from Irukandji over the past 100 years If you wear a \u201cstinger-suit\u201d you have over 75% protection Wearing a stinger suit also protects you from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}