MRSA With Your Sunscreen? Death on the Half Shell?

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http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1915


Global warming and our "absurd over-dependence on carbon-based fuels" is interconnected with the looming economic and national security crises, said former Vice President Al Gore to an overflow audience at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Chicago in February.

It's also connected to the rise in antibiotic resistant strains of deadly sea-born bacteria, said scientists at a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) sponsored event at the AAAS meeting.

Seafood collected from three locations on the U.S. southeast coast showed striking levels of antibiotic resistant Vibrio parahaemolyticus, related to cholera and Vibrio vulnificus, which can kill in 72 hours, reported Ramunas Stephanauskas, PhD from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science in West Boothbay Harbor, ME.

The increasing risk of Death on the Half Shell -- resistance was found with aminoglycosides, tetracyclines, and cephalosporins, according to Stephanauskas -- is caused by a coastal water toxic soup of metal contamination and livestock runoff potentiated by global warming.

Nor do you want to bathe in the water, said Lisa Plano, MD a pediatrician and microbiologist with the University of Miami's Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the same workshop.

Research that Plano and her University of Miami colleagues conducted on public beaches that had no sewage source found adults and babies who started out MRSA and MSSA-free (Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus, respectively) ended up with the microorganisms in their bodies after exposure to sand and water!
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good grief!

read the rest and be disgusted