California woman loses limbs after battling bacterial infection from tilapia

Re:California woman loses limbs after battling bacterial inf... by DoreenMichele on Sunday September 17, 2023 @03:02AM (#37542276)

Increased ocean temps have been in the news a lot in recent weeks, so I don't grok this reply.

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Later in the Wikipedia page:

Increasing seasonal temperatures and decreasing salinity levels seem to favor a greater concentration of Vibrio within filter-feeding shellfish of the U.S. Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico...

According to the CDC, V. vulnificus infections in the Eastern United States increased eightfold from 1988–2018 and the border of where these infections occur has migrated 48 km Northward each year.

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Re:California woman loses limbs after battling bacterial inf... by userbinator on Sunday September 17, 2023 @04:46PM (#37549135)

I wouldn't trust "the news" all that much these days, given how much scaremongering brings in the views and ad $$$.

As for the trend, what about the years before 1988?

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