Deadly Jellyfish
 

New species of deadly jellyfish discovered.

Know their habits!

http://praise.manoa.hawaii.edu/news/eh201.html

Other deadly jellyfish:

Irukandji Jellyfish

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...waustralia.xml
http://www.australianfauna.com/irukandji.php

Box Jellyfish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_jellyfish

http://www.extremescience.com/DeadliestCreature.htm
http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/jell...ox-seawasp.php






http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2002Apr14.html
The Associated Press

TOWNSVILLE, Australia -- An American tourist stung by a jellyfish
while
snorkeling off Australia's northeast coast has died, his partner said
Monday.

Robert King, 44, from Columbus, Ohio, was stung late last month while
snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef.

King died Friday afternoon in the Townsville Hospital, his partner
Michele
Carlson said Monday.

Tests revealed the jellyfish to be a previously unknown species likely
related
to the deadly box jellyfish that infests Australia's northern coastal
waters
each Southern Hemisphere summer.

King is believed to have developed irukandji syndrome from the sting,
causing a
rapid rise in blood pressure and a cerebral hemorrhage.

"I had warned Bob of the deadly creatures in Australia," Carlson said
in a
statement. "We had joked in an e-mail recently about the poisonous
snakes and
.... jellyfish."

King's death came less than three months after British tourist Richard
Jordan
became the first person on record in Australia to die from irukandji
syndrome
after he was stung.