A 12-year-old girl got infected with flesh-eating bacteria on a Florida beach. Experts say this will

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become more common as ocean water warms.

https://www.businessinsider.com/flesh-eating-bacteria-spreading-due-to-warmer-oceans-2019-6

Aylin Woodward at Business Insider

"SNIP......

The Vibrio vulnificus bacteria thrives in warm salty or brackish water. It can cause a flesh-eating disease that can sometimes result in amputations or death.

People can contract a Vibrio infection after wading in this water with an open wound or eating raw shellfish from the water.

Earlier this month, a 12-year-old girl contracted the flesh-eating bacteria at Destin Beach in Florida. She needed emergency surgery, without which she would have lost her leg.

This flesh-eating bacteria is spreading beyond its traditional region, in part due to warming ocean temperatures caused by climate change.

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[BBG]

1. Great, Florida Beach tells Florida Man hold my beer

One more reason to avoid the floriduh.

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2. It is devastating. In canada, the environment is the #1 issue this summer before

an election. I hope americans get there too in 2020.

[Initech]

3. Great, is this how the zombie apocalypse starts?

[DFW]

4. Not just in Florida

My family and I have been going to the outer part of Cape Cod, MA for 35 years now. My wife always puts on a wet suit because the ocean side was just too cold for her.

Fifteen years ago, we used to get a rare appearance of a seal swimming close enough to the beach that we could see its head bobbing up for air. Now, that's not once a week, but once every half hour. They are at the Cape in large numbers. So, too, is their main predator. Great White Sharks never used to be seen in the waters near Cape Cod beaches. Last year, the day after we left, there was an attack on a swimmer at our favorite beach. Just a week after that, there was a fatal shark attack at a beach two miles down the road. Sightings of great white sharks are now common at Chatham and Orleans, about fifteen miles down the road from where we stay. It's pretty much a given that there will be more attacks on humans this year. My wife is rather slender, gets cold easily, and will probably still put on her wet suit this year (I don't use one). In a shark's eyes, this makes her resemble a seal, i.e. lunch. We will try to make sure she doesn't go too far out, and keep an eye out for triangular fins.

We have been going to Cape Cod every summer since 1984, and our time of making the yearly 4000 mile trek may be coming slowly to an end, but we'd rather that be due to our own frailty rather than one of us being a great white's appetizer.

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5. That is awful. Right whales are in the Gulf on the St Lawrence looking for where

their summer food has gone since it left the Bay of Fundy/Maine waters. What do they find? Shipping lanes. They are getting hit and killed. 7 in the last few weeks. After last year the canadian government was pushed by americans to lower the speed limit on ships. They did. It still has not kept whales from getting nailed when they surface. This is all such a slow moving nightmare. Maybe your wife would find Cape Cod waters warmer these days? Stay safe. My parents drove the four of us kids down to Cape Cod in July or August 40 years ago. They did not book a motel in advance. We drove around for hours from one no vacancy sign to another. Finally rented the house where management of a motel were hanging out and smoking and drinking. Don't know how much my dad payed but we were desperate. World's first Air B&B. Beautifil coastline.

[DFW]

11. The situation of the North Atlantic Right Whale is desperate to nearing extinction

They do everything slowly, move, eat, reproduce. The premature death of even one of them (let alone seven!) is already a further endangerment of the species.

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6. Poor kid. Isn't Destin part of the Redneck Riviera?

This'll be interesting to watch over the years, decades...

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7. Illnesses are moving north. Used to be lime disease didn't make it north of the border

in the east. Now it is everywhere in ontario.

[malaise]

8. Meanwhile back in Japan

The vile MAGAcretin tried to get other countries to weaken the Paris Accord.

[susanr516]

9. My youngest son won't go into the the Gulf at all anymore

He has plaque psoriasis on both of his lower legs. The gulf is so warm that vibrio is a constant threat.

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10. Oh that is so hard. And as one ages your skin breaks down so i imagine

lots of older people can't go in either.