NEW JERSEY: Bacteria lives on a half shell - (Press of Atlantic City)
June 8, 2008 – 6:50 pmU.S. Department of Agriculture researchers have found two potentially dangerous species of the bacteria shewanella and one species of photobacterium in oysters and seawater in the Delaware Bay. The bacteria could potentially harm people through skin and blood infections, according to this month’s edition of Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Gary Richards, lead author of the two-year study and lead scientist for the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service Seafood Safety Laboratory in Dover, Del., was quoted as saying, “This was a wake-up call to monitor the shore more closely.”
The story notes that the bacteria do not come from pollution; instead, they naturally occur in marine waters. This is the first time the bacteria have been discovered in the Delaware Bay, but Richards supposes that they could have been there for a very long time - perhaps even millions of years.
While most healthy people are not at risk of contracting the bacteria, people with […]
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