“Between 1998 and 2018, US cases of V. vulnificus increased eightfold, including expanding into areas where the bacteria is considered rare, including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.”
If it’s in the Gulf, and then all the way to Maine, the entire Eastern Seaboard is potentially compromised.
How does the West Coast look?
5.9% of 529 samples of water on the West Coast. Seems less prevalent and fewer sources of infection.
Welp, there’s your problem:
“Between 1998 and 2018, US cases of V. vulnificus increased eightfold, including expanding into areas where the bacteria is considered rare, including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.”
If it’s in the Gulf, and then all the way to Maine, the entire Eastern Seaboard is potentially compromised.
How does the West Coast look?
5.9% of 529 samples of water on the West Coast. Seems less prevalent and fewer sources of infection.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC203868/
Did you read the second part of my last sentence?
Not just the ocean.