We are looking at most of the community, we are looking at 100 people, he said. He was well-known within the five communities for a boy of his age. The loss of the talented student who had a love of hunting, fishing, diving and horse riding has left a huge void in the small coastal town of Injinoo. The loss of a young person (is tragic,) nobody knows, only god knows his pathway, Mr Solomon said. He had his pathway and football career and all of sudden it got cut-off by a jelly fish. The deepest sympathy from the Gudang/Yadhaykenu Aboriginal Corporation to the family for the loss.
Box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri) have been spotted near the Gladstone Marina, while their smaller, but just as deadly relatives the Irukandji jellyfish, are also known to inhabit local waters. The warning comes as cyclone Niran whips up seas along the Capricorn Coast, with the potential of transporting jellyfish closer to shore. Identified by their large, cube shaped body, box jellyfish have been involved in at least 70 deaths in Australia. Medical Services Director Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service, Dr Marlow Coates, warned against swimming in waters inhabited by the jellyfish. If you don t have a protective suit and you know there could be stingers or jellyfish in the water, just don t go in, he said.
It has been received extremely well and we have had some interest from CSIRO who wanted to use the primers, Mr Bolte said. We developed those primers for chironex fleckeri (box jelly fish). That s one of our main marine stingers and then we also developed for three other species like irukandji. Filtering water off Magnetic Island, the researchers used micron mesh to isolate DNA left behind by stingers, which was tested using a specially developed primer. It s the same thing that people are doing at a crime scene. You can match the DNA from that species left behind in the environment if you have the primers, he said.