The Australian Associated Press reports on the case of Sam Kanizay, a Melbourne 16-year-old who spent about a half-hour soaking his legs, sore from sports, at Dendy Street Beach in Brighton on Saturday.
He emerged with his legs dripping in blood.
“As soon as we wiped [his legs] down, they kept bleeding,†Sam’s father, Jarrod Kanizay, said. “They ate through Sam’s skin and made it bleed profusely.â€
And they left doctors stumped. But there have been theories aplenty, according to The New York Times and the Associated Press: Some were sure that sea lice, a group of crustaceans known as isopods, were responsible.
The head of the Dolphin Research Institute points the finger at another group of crustaceans called amphipods; another marine expert speculates it was jellyfish larvae.
As for Thomas Cribb, a parasite expert at the University of Queensland, “It’s not a parasite I’ve ever come across.â€
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