{"id":6884,"date":"2019-01-07T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=6884"},"modified":"2019-01-07T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T07:30:00","slug":"wall-of-jellyfish-stings-thousands-of-people-over-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/01\/07\/wall-of-jellyfish-stings-thousands-of-people-over-two-days\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Wall’ of jellyfish stings thousands of people over two days"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 3,500 people have been stung by jellyfish in Queensland over the weekend, Australian lifeguards have said.<\/p>\n

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Surf Lifesaving Queensland said a “whopping” 3,595 people were stung by the bluebottle on the beaches of the northern state.<\/p>\n

Most of those stung were on the Gold Coast, while there were also many stung on the Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n

More than 3,500 people have been stung by jellyfish in Queensland over the weekend, Australian lifeguards have said.<\/p>\n

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Surf Lifesaving Queensland said a “whopping” 3,595 people were stung by the bluebottle on the beaches of the northern state.<\/p>\n

Most of those stung were on the Gold Coast, while there were also many stung on the Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n

Surf Life Saving duty officer Jeremy Sturges described the jellyfish as an “epidemic”, telling Australian media: “I have never seen anything like this – ever”.<\/p>\n

He said that those stung should remove the stingers, take a very hot shower and to apply ice to their wounds.<\/p>\n

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Some Queensland beaches were closed due to the jellyfish<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

And swimmers are not the only ones at risk – even those walking along the beach were warned not to pick up the jellyfish and to watch their step.<\/p>\n

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Skynews<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 3,500 people have been stung by jellyfish in Queensland over the weekend, Australian lifeguards have said. Surf Lifesaving Queensland said a “whopping” 3,595 people were stung by the bluebottle on the beaches of the northern state. Most of those stung were on the Gold Coast, while there were also many stung on the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6886,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions\/6886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}