Teacher considers scarification to retain potentially deadly box jellyfish sting

Harmony Dixon’s box jellyfish sting was excruciatingly painful, but one year on she’s considering permanent scarification to retain the wound that could have ended her life.

Warning: This article references the death an Aboriginal person.

The primary school teacher was swimming at Darwin’s Nightcliff Beach in late April 2020, a month before the end of the Northern Territory’s box jellyfish season.

“The water in Darwin had been looking…