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There are many dangerous bacteria and microbes in the water, but the main cause for concern is that their populations increase rapidly if sand and dust from the Sahara Desert and other parts of the water enter the water of the African continent. Researchers say that due to global climate change, the area of deserts is increasing, and, accordingly, the risk of infection of marine and ocean life around the planet is increasing. In addition, rising seawater temperatures could cause bacteria to spread north to the British Isles.
Winds carry dust over vast distances. Most of it settles in the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean, and the remnants are carried by winds to Northern Europe and Great Britain, where dust settles on car windows, forming a thin layer.
Dust brings cholera
According to Dr. Erin Lipp from the University of Georgia, the amount of parahemolytic vibrio, alginolytic vibrio (pathogens) and the virus is rapidly increasing in the water cholera is just two days after it was covered by dust from African deserts.
According to Lipp, due to climate change, the area of deserts in western Africa will increase, which means that the amount of dust carried will also increase. The fact is that the infection of marine life threatens humanity, which consumes seafood in huge quantities. Scientists have noted that there is a rapid increase in vibrios, which affect the eyes and ears, and can cause cholera.
However, dust also performs a positive function: it feeds water. In addition, the results of research in this area can be used to determine the period when it is especially dangerous to eat crustaceans, oysters and shrimps due to the increase in the number of microbes in water.
Algae are also dangerous
Algae can also poison the inhabitants of the seas. Some of them are particularly poisonous: the toxins they release are trapped in mollusks and crustaceans, and can be fatal in people who eat them. Scientists suggest that due to climate change, algae growth will only increase. In addition, by the end of the century, algae blossoms will begin two months earlier and will last a month longer than now.