An unexpected post-oil spill finding? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 24 May 2010 NOAA’s Oil Spill Response Understanding Tar Balls did not recognize any infectious disease hazard posed by tar balls from BP’s Deepwater Horizon soil spill. However, an Auburn University study afterward confirmed an apparently significant health hazard posed by the bacterium, Vibrio [...]
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