'High amounts' of flesh-eating bacteria and ocean plastics create 'perfect pathogen storm' in Florida seaweed

Remember the stinky, 5,000 mile-wide blob of brown seaweed headed to Florida that was so large, it measured twice the width of the U.S. and could be seen from space? Well, a lot of it has settled on the coast of Southern Florida, and researchers from the Florida Atlantic University have since found that when this ever-growing Sargassum bloom mixes with both the ocean's omnipresent micro-plastic debris and thriving Vibrio — aka flesh-eating — bacteria, a 'perfect 'pathogen' storm' is born. — Read the rest