This infection is no day at the beach.
Y’all voted for more of it.
Fatal infections from “flesh-eating” bacteria Vibrio vulnificus are on the rise, with eight deaths and dozens more cases already this year, and experts warn that climate change is in part to blame.
“Available data indicates that infections are indeed on the rise, particularly in the Gulf Coast and surrounding regions,” Antarpreet Jutla, a professor and director of the USGS FL Water Resources Research Center, and director of the GeoHealth and Hydrology Laboratory at the University of Florida, told Newsweek.
“Climate change is likely a major reason,” R. Sean Norman, a professor and director of the Molecular Microbial Ecology Laboratory in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of South Carolina, told Newsweek.
The deadly bacteria thrives in coastal regions where millions of Americans head for holidays, and with sea temperatures rising, an increase in severe storms, and other environmental changes linked to climate change, experts fear that the number of Vibrio vulnificus infections each year will only continue to rise.
After reading this, the “Jesus Lakes” in northern Minnesota… where even we sinners can walk on water… don’t seem so harsh….