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What’s to fear about warming oceans? Flesh-eating bacteria
Read full article: What’s to fear about warming oceans? Flesh-eating bacteriaPotentially deadly infections from a type of flesh-eating bacterium could significantly increase in the decades ahead as climate change causes oceans to warm and helps the organisms spread into new coastal areas.
CDC warns about the rise in almost untreatable Shigella bacterial infections
Read full article: CDC warns about the rise in almost untreatable Shigella bacterial infectionsThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning about a rise in extensively drug-resistant cases of the bacterial infection Shigella, a major cause of inflammatory diarrhea.
Do personal UV disinfectant lights really kill harmful bacteria?
Read full article: Do personal UV disinfectant lights really kill harmful bacteria?But small, personal UV devices are only now becoming mainstream, and the industry is entirely unregulated. They then took the bacteria on the petri dish and scanned it with the Safe & Healthy UV Disinfecting Light for 10 seconds. Within 48 hours, you could see how many of the bacteria cultures the UV devices killed. Busby said the biggest difference in the two products is where the UV light actually hits the product you need to disinfect. It is also important to note that these personal UV devices are not regulated.