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Yes, flesh-eating bacteria can hitch rides on seaweed and plastic (no, don’t cancel your summer vacation)

A recent study stoked fears of flesh-eating bacteria invading beaches across Florida, the Caribbean and elsewhere in the Gulf of Mexico. Experts aren’t worried … yet. Disease-causing bacteria, including the type behind flesh-eating infections, can colonize rafts of seaweed and plastic pollution in …

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