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As the summer season gets underway, a new report finds that many coastal U.S. waterways, including popular beaches for swimming, are contaminated with unsafe levels of fecal bacteria.
Health officials issued ocean water use warnings for about a dozen L.A. County beaches and multiple piers with high levels of bacteria.
Studies have found that the sand and water on beaches and lakes can host MRSA bacteria. Symptoms of MRSA typically start with swollen and painful red bums that look like pimples, are warm to the ...
Other data from past years also verifies the alarming rates of bacteria at local beaches that can make swimmers sick. In 2022, 75% of California beaches tested had potentially unsafe levels of ...
Sea foam washed up or blown onto a beach. Sea foam, ocean foam, beach foam, or spume is a type of foam created by the agitation of seawater, particularly when it contains higher concentrations of dissolved organic matter (including proteins, lignins, and lipids) derived from sources such as the offshore breakdown of algal blooms. [1]
A May 2024 photo of a warning sign for people to avoid the water due to bacteria levels at Mother's Beach in Marina del Ray. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)
Operation Sea-Spray was a 1950 U.S. Navy secret biological warfare experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Area in California, in order to determine how vulnerable a city like San Francisco may be to a bioweapon attack, killing at least one American and sickening at least 10 more.
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