Following several hospitalizations due to infection by Vibrio vulnificus (flesh-eating bacteria) contracted in Florida waters, a new UF-led initiative will create forecasting tools that can anticipate health risks linked to environmental conditions. This will provide advance warnings similar to the way weather forecasting helps communities prepare for storms and other hazards.
At UF’s Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, or EES, researcher Antarpreet Jutla is working to ensure that all coastal denizens and inhabitants have the information they need on the dangerous waterborne bacteria. As part of a groundbreaking research initiative supported by the NIH, Jutla and his collaborator, Katherine Deliz Quiñones, also from EES, are working to transform the way scientists detect, forecast and respond to dangerous waterborne infections caused by pathogenic Vibrio bacteria in coastal waters.
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