A specialist rescue crew was sent to K’gari (Fraser Island) this morning after they were alerted that the primary-school aged girl had been strung by an Irukandji jellyfish on the western side of the island.
It is understood that she was suffering from envenomation symptoms, which relate to a poisonous sting, when the RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter crew arrived on scene about 11am.
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The jellyfish was not found on the child but she was believed to be stung while swimming near a well-known creek.
Accompanied by her father, the girl was airlifted to Hervey Bay Hospital in a stable condition.
