Flesh-eating bacteria are growing in the US, an effect of climate change: Research
A flesh-eating bacterium that kills about 20% of its victims and lives in coastal waters is spreading far beyond its original home on the Gulf Coast, moving up the east coast about 30 miles a year. Although still rare, infections Harmful Vibrio increased eightfold between 1988 and 2018 as climate change warmed the brackish coastal…