(CNN) - Researchers said the giant seaweed blob piling up on the Florida coast could be carrying illness-inducing bacteria. Sargassum can serve as a marine habitat while adrift at sea, but as it ...

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. When you ...

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However, the team did identify some previously undescribed Vibrio species that carry key genes found in their disease-causing cousins. The scientists' analysis suggests that these bacteria potentially ...