Australian Teenager In Hospital After Sea Bug Attack

[Flashermac]

 

An Australian teenager is recovering in hospital after being bitten by multiple "mite-sized sea critters".

 

Sam Kanizay, 16, found his feet and ankles covered in blood after soaking his legs in Melbourne's Brighton Beach on Saturday evening.

 

Jarrod Kanizay said his son arrived home with what "looked like a war injury" and that his legs would not stop bleeding.

 

The family are seeking expert opinion to identify the flesh-eating bugs.

 

Marine biologists have said they were likely to have been sea fleas, tiny scavenging marine animals.

 

After a tiring football game on Saturday evening, the 16-year-old decided to soak his legs in the cold bay near his home.

 

He stood still waist-deep in the dark cold water for about half an hour and didn't feel a thing but returned home "bleeding profusely".

 

"It looked like a war injury... like a grenade attack. It was really bloody," Mr Kanizay told BBC News.

 

"We got him in the shower but as soon as we did that the blood kept re-appearing," said Mr Kanizay.

 

"It wasn't clotting at all. It just kept bleeding and bleeding."

 

After two local hospitals could not identify the cause of the multiple pin-prick injuries, the Melbourne father decided to investigate and went back to the beach.

 

"I collected these strange creatures from the same spot last night by trapping them in a net and standing in the water myself," he said.

 

"We got thousands of these little mite-type bugs and they've been sent on to experts."

 

Mr Kanizay said he hoped the sandy-coloured mites would not scar his son, and he is expected to make a full recovery.

 

"We are just waiting on the experts to tell us what they are and how they behave and why this happened."

 

Marine biologist Dr Genefor Walker-Smith, who saw some of the samples, told Australia's Herald Sun newspaper that the bugs were probably lysianassid amphipods, or sea fleas.

 

"It's possible he disturbed a feeding group but they are generally not out there waiting to attack like piranhas," she said.

 

Experts have said such cases are very rare and that there is no reason for alarm.

 

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-40846546

[Flashermac]

Everything in Australia tries to kill you!

[waerth]

The Dutch were smart not to colonize the place and leave it to the Brits

[baa99]

The Dutch were smart not to colonize the place and leave it to the Brits

 

... and the Brits sent prisoners that had no choice!

[Flashermac]

<< The first documented and undisputed European sighting of and landing on Australia was in late February 1606, by the Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon aboard the Duyfken. Janszoon charted the Australian coast and met with Aboriginal people. Janszoon followed the coast of New Guinea, missed Torres Strait, and explored and then charted part of the western side of Cape York, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, believing the land was still part of New Guinea. On 26 February 1606, Janszoon and his party made landfall near the modern town of Weipa and the Pennefather River, but were promptly attacked by the Indigenous people. Janszoon proceeded down the coast for some 350 km. He stopped in some places, but was met by hostile natives and some of his men were killed. At the final place, he initially had friendly relations with the natives, but after he forced them to hunt for him and appropriated some of their women, violence broke out and there were many deaths on both sides. These events were recorded in Aboriginal oral history that has come down to the present day. Here Janszoon decided to turn back, the place later being called Cape Keerweer, Dutch for "turnabout". >>

 

 

Looks like the Dutch weren't exactly welcomed.

[My Penis is hungry]

Turns out it antipods, things like a garden snail except under water, and if you see the video the family did when they collected the buggers, nasty things.

 

Oddly in 1978, same thing in same place happened to a bloke who is now working on Dolphin Research.

 

The video, ergh

 

[bust]

Nothing like a snail. More like sea fleas.

 

[bust]

<< The first documented and undisputed European sighting of and landing on Australia was in late February 1606, by the Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon aboard the Duyfken. Janszoon charted the Australian coast and met with Aboriginal people. Janszoon followed the coast of New Guinea, missed Torres Strait, and explored and then charted part of the western side of Cape York, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, believing the land was still part of New Guinea. On 26 February 1606, Janszoon and his party made landfall near the modern town of Weipa and the Pennefather River, but were promptly attacked by the Indigenous people. Janszoon proceeded down the coast for some 350 km. He stopped in some places, but was met by hostile natives and some of his men were killed. At the final place, he initially had friendly relations with the natives, but after he forced them to hunt for him and appropriated some of their women, violence broke out and there were many deaths on both sides. These events were recorded in Aboriginal oral history that has come down to the present day. Here Janszoon decided to turn back, the place later being called Cape Keerweer, Dutch for "turnabout". >>

 

 

Looks like the Dutch weren't exactly welcomed.

 

[Mekong]

 

Fucking Love that Picture I use it all the time to take the Piss outta my Aussie PM haha.

[baa99]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugjaz35z-xw