As South Floridians know, there's nothing like a day of enjoying the sun and the sand, but with the beauty of the beach often comes the creepy kelp in the ocean.
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Seaweed full of flesh-eating bacteria hitting Florida
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Seaweed mixing with plastics could provide fertile ground for flesh-eating bacteria, research shows
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Flesh-eating bacteria found in seaweed on state beaches
A form of seaweed known as Sargassum has been washing up on Florida shores and Florida Atlantic University (FAU) researchers warn it's extremely dangerous.
As South Floridians know, there's nothing like a day of enjoying the sun and the sand, but with the beauty of the beach often comes the creepy kelp in the ocean.
A gargantuan seaweed blob on its way to Florida beaches is filled with plastic and some potentially harmful bacteria, but no "flesh-eating" microbes, as some news reports have suggested.
