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The Irukandji stingers are a peanut sized relative of the lethal box jellyfish and are found in Australia's northern waters during the rainy season.

A second European tourist has been hospitalized after being stung by an irukandji jellyfish while swimming off the coast of an Australian holiday resort.

Robert Gonzalez, a 35-year-old French national, was stung Sunday off Hook Island in far north Queensland. Doctors at the Mackay Base Hospital said he was in satisfactory condition and spent the night in the hospital for observation.

Last Thursday, a British tourist, Richard Jordan, died in Mackay Hospital after being stung. He was the first person to die of a sting from the irukandji, a relative of the deadly box jellyfish The irukandji jellyfish is about the size of a peanut and is too small to be kept out of swimming areas by protective nets.

Some information for this report provided by DPA and AP.

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