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One sting from a jack jumper ant lurking in Jennie Kun's garden could be deadly. She's just started a treatment program to train her body to stop being allergic, but says it needs to be made more accessible.
Jack jumper ants send more people to hospital in Tasmania than in rest of Australia
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Marley, now 9, is not scared of playing in the grass anymore.
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Four-year-old Marley Dowde was playing cricket in her northern Tasmanian backyard in January 2016 when she was stung twice in quick succession by a jack jumper ant.
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Tasmanians were hospitalised at the highest rate for ant, tick and caterpillar stings in 2017-18
Experts blame this on the prevalence of jack jumper ants, a highly aggressive species, in Tasmania
The Jack Jumper Allergy Program helps desensitise people to jack jumper venom