Health advisory issued for rare bacterial infection that has claimed the lives of a dozen Americans
Source: USA Today
Published 9:29 p.m. ET Sept. 6, 2023
A health alert has been issued by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in response to recent reports of a fatal bacterial infection that thrives in warm coastal waters. The Vibrio vulnificus bacteria can be found in raw or undercooked seafood, saltwater, and brackish water. The most common way to become infected is when an open wound comes into contact with vibrio bacteria in water.
At least a dozen people have died from the infection across the country this year. About 80,000 people get vibrio infections each year. Of those infected, about 100 people will die from the infection annually in the U.S., according to the CDC. As ocean waters continue to warm due to climate change, the Vibrio vulnificus is migrating north, studies have found.
"The warmer water is, the more bacteria can reproduce faster," researcher Gabby Barbarite at Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in Fort Pierce, Florida told USA Today. Infections have increased eight-fold between 1988 and 2018 around he country, according to research published in March in the journal Nature Portfolio.
The bacteria and infections are spreading northwards up the East Coast at a rate of about 30 miles a year, researchers share. "Cases used to be concentrated almost exclusively in the Gulf of Mexico in the southern United States," Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University, told USA TODAY earlier this year.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/09/06/cdc-flesh-eating-bacteria-advisory-issued/70781843007/
Link to info on alert - https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2023/han00497.asp
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are literally in the 80s - like bathwater!
So I can imagine what the temps are for inland waterways like ponds, lakes and rivers where this can flourish. 
With or without open wounds, I'm not hitting the beach until at least November or December. Maybe not even then.
as the long term models (specifically the GFS) last week, had been honking about something spinning up and approaching somewhere between Sept. 12 - Sept 17 (the animated of the below is showing a coastal miss but we will see as they get more data over the rest of the week).
A possible future "Margot" is brewing right behind Lee.
Any tropical cyclones can help to stir up the colder water that sinks deep in the oceans and that upwelling can help to cool the surface.
make US landfall around eastern Florida sometime next week. Hoping for upwelling soon. 
If a strong "Bermuda High" sets up, it might not hit FL but could do like what Hurricane Franklin did (but without crossing Hispaniola) - basically become what mets call "a fish storm".
for past hurricanes. Nice graphic. 
I'm hoping for a front that helps it swerve northward at the point of the Bahamas, but NOAA's not showing what you're showing on their 2pm update.
use the other system models. That's badass tracking. 
I've personally experience four, beginning to end, and now have avoided the latest three since being exiled to Florida. That's my new MO -- not tracking, just watching NOAA, and not toughing it out. 
I'ma check him out. Thanks for his link. 
when on vacation in Acapulco, I got the pleasure of what was Cat 1 Cosme that literally passed over Acapulco Bay and surrounding area. It knocked the power out at the hotel and there was flooding (particularly on the other side of the mountain ridge) but the eye passed over us overnight which was wild to experience at night as it was stormy and then quiet with the stars out and then stormy again.
Cosme had formed in the Pacific, crossed Mexico, and then the remnants emerged into the GOM where they regenerated and the storm was renamed Allison (tropical storm). Allison made landfall in TX and the remnants eventually made their way to Philly after we returned home, so I experienced it TWICE! 
From that point on, NHC made a change where they would no longer "rename" storms that cross between the oceans if it can be shown that they came back to life from remnants.
its eye passed over us. Cars on A1A sand blasted silver, and nearby beach burger stands under sand dunes, the roofs barely visible, fish flopping everywhere by the shore. And surfers! It was wild, but after an hour we had to rush back home before getting slammed.
But then you experienced it again in Philly is phenomenal! What a storm experience. 
My Northridge, California friend says that when it rains in the valley, locals call it "having some weather." 
They know about that hurricane in the Virgin Islands (St. Croix) thanks to what he wrote up in a letter to newspaper in New York - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-01-02-0042
It's in the National Archives.
make US landfall around eastern Florida sometime next week. Hoping for upwelling soon.
"We" changed to "all of us"? And what would "everything we can" look like. Just calling out? What would that do.
As I've already said, easier said than done.
And as I implied above, at length, we are past the years of 'public awareness' building. "We" have talked our brains out. Won court cases beyond any reasonable doubts. Collected evidence, got 91 felony counts against a former occupant of the WH.
It's one reason why most Americans know the score (besides from direct experience). The "we" you speak of has done its job.
It's the doing time now. THAT is the "we" I'm referring to. The we who can but does not DO.
The same "we" I've described above, who sit in halls of power and accountability and STILL haven't done enough focusing beyond their next election to "hold" even themselves accountable.
Add to that the fact that the 'we' you refer to, has to right now pay attention to too much that's performative bullshit -- like one party that's threatening to shut govt down.
You and I are talking past each other, Think.
So let's just say we agree that not enough is being done at scale by whoever should be earning what we pay them to do (as Nancy would say, "for the children" ).
If you think we should have an official statement from DU to the people that you list, try something new to swivel their heads. Because legislators need help legislating. Consumers are busy earning to consume, or even just get food, housing and real health care that cares. Discussion board members discuss.
The focus here should be on Who is REALLY in a position to DO what you say in a country that's in a perpetual "state of emergency."
Letters and petitions have been proven not to work. Those are out. We've done phone calls and left messages. That's not working well enough, though it's said to be the "most impactful" means of communicating. I'm not prioritizing this to deal with, but I appreciate that you want to.
