Teen Walks Into Ocean To Cool Off, Looks Down And Notices His Legs Covered In Blood
Note: we are republishing this story which originally made the news in August 2017.
Sam Kanizay was at Dendy Street Beach in Brighton where he believes he was attacked by sea lice.
He walked home, “leaving a path of blood,” and his father Jarrod and 14-year-old sister Gabby took him into the shower to wash off the blood
The flow didn’t stop, with the blood seeping from pinprick-sized holes. He was rushed to Sandringham Hospital emergency department, where he was given painkillers and antibiotics as blood tests were run.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, he was taken to Dandenong Hospital for further tests.
His legs were still seeping blood on Sunday afternoon, but doctors had no answers.
University of Melbourne marine biologist Professor Michael Keough stated that it was a possibility: “They’re scavengers who’ll clean up dead fish and feed on living tissue. They’re mostly less than a centimeter long, and so the bites they make are pretty small, and so that’s more consistent with pinprick size marks.”
Jarrod said of their experience at Sandringham Hospital: “We had the emergency room full of everybody that was working there just fascinated, they were all on Google afterwards, hypothesizing as to what happened. They pretty much had 10 different hypotheses but nothing yet.”
Jarrod said that he was considering leaving a bloodied piece of meat in the bay on Sunday night “to see if we can catch these things.”
Sources: The Sydney Morning Herald
