Seaweed full of flesh-eating bacteria hitting Florida

The massive 5,000-mile blob of sargassum seaweed may be crawling with deadly Vibrio bacteria, scientists have found.

: only about 0.4 people per 100,000 are infected each year in the United States.

"We really want to make the public aware of these associated risks. In particular, caution should be exercised regarding the harvest and processing of Sargassum biomass until the risks are explored more thoroughly." , the seaweed clump was estimated to contain about 13 million tons of sargassum, a record amount for that time of year.Water Research"Another interesting thing we discovered is a set of genes called 'zot' genes, which causes leaky gut syndrome," said Mincer.

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