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Flesh-eating bacteria infections are surging along the Gulf Coast with five deaths reported in Louisiana

Flesh-eating bacteria infections are surging along the Gulf Coast with five deaths reported in LouisianaWorldPing

“Seek medical care immediately if a wound exposed to brackish or salt water becomes red, swollen, painful, warm or discolored."…

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Deep underground, bacteria may be capable of doing something remarkable: trapping toxic uranium before it spreads. When researchers fed microbes in uranium-contaminated mine water with glycerol, about 95% of the dissolved uranium disappeared within 130 days.

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