Irukandji jellyfish
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Oct 5, 2026
Joanna BoneGUEST
It had been about a 10-year pipe dream for me to make first aid better for agricultural properties and, and station workers.
Joanna BoneGUEST
I always found it funny when I was sent to do a first aid course and, and it was sitting in a room in a town and learning about Irukandji jellyfish and-
Alana BallHOST
Mm
Joanna BoneGUEST
... things that weren't relative to me, and then coming back and trying to apply that to my agricultural setting.
Ben SouthallHOST
Africa gave me a lot of nasty little things.
Ben SouthallHOST
You know, I've had an Irukandji sting here.
Ben SouthallHOST
I've had a crown of thorns spike in me here.
Ben SouthallHOST
I had tick bite fever in South Africa.
Alanah PearceHOST
It's cruel that this exists.
Alanah PearceHOST
It's a type of jellyfish called Irukandji, and they are about that big.
Tim SchaferGUEST
Oh, not the big box jellyfish.
Tim SchaferGUEST
Box jelly is also
Alanah PearceHOST
bad.
Alanah PearceHOST
Irukandji, about that big and invisible.
Alanah PearceHOST
So you won't even see them and they'll kill you.
Tim SchaferGUEST
And how do you not get killed by them? You just roll the dice.
speaker_1HOST
Chironex fleckeri lives in the tropical waters off northern Australia and Southeast Asia, drifting in the warm shallows where people swim.
speaker_1HOST
The Irukandji jellyfish are tiny box jellyfish, some of them no larger than a fingernail, almost impossible to see in the water.
speaker_1HOST
An Irukandji sting can be barely noticeable at first, hardly more than a faint prick, with the severe symptoms only developing perhaps half an hour later, a delay that makes the small creature all the more troubling.
speaker_1HOST
The Irukandji syndrome is named after the Yirrganydji Aboriginal people of the Cairns region of Australia, whose name became attached to the condition.
speaker_1HOST
In 1964, an Australian doctor named Jack Barnes set out to identify the species responsible and did so in a remarkably direct way by deliberately stinging himself, along with his own son and a lifeguard, in order to prove which jellyfish caused the syndrome.
speaker_1HOST
That species now carries his name, Carukia barnesi, a small jellyfish named after the man who let it sting him.
EmilyHOST
Her name is Lehani Zorich, and she's no ordinary world champion.
EmilyHOST
Lehani was surfing on the Australian team called the Irukandjis, named after the deadly jellyfish in the world championships in the country of El Salvador.
EmilyHOST
Leihani won the under-18 division, but she's only 13.
EmilyHOST
Do you get why it's so impressive? Because she's younger? Exactly.
Darren RobertsGUEST
We're saying use vinegar if it's a part of the box jellyfish family.
Darren RobertsGUEST
So that may be the Irukandji, which are very hard to know if you've been stung by an Irukandji
Sophie DelezioHOST
for...
Darren RobertsGUEST
reasons we probably don't have time to talk about today it's quite fascinating but also the general one which we call the box jellyfish which is a you know it's a big um sort of bell shaped thing with all these tentacles and uh causes severe pain people know when they've been bitten by that one we provide vinegar and as people would know you go to the beach up in northern uh queensland uh and you're walking along and there's these little containers of vinegar along along the beach it's quite interesting
Ellen GrahamPANELIST
Nothing major that would involve closing the beach or anything.
Ellen GrahamPANELIST
Irukandji.
Ellen GrahamPANELIST
Is that how it's
Chris BondPANELIST
pronounced? Irukandji? What's the word? I don't know.
Chris BondPANELIST
I just know they
Phil Harker-SmithHOST
kill people pretty quick.
Phil Harker-SmithHOST
Irukandji.
Phil Harker-SmithHOST
I'm pretty sure that's how you spell it.