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Residents of the southern U.S. might be familiar with this dusty summer phenomenon.

We're breathing dust that at one time originated over Africa.

Dust particles are carried 15,000 feet into the atmosphere.

Another dust cloud from Africa's Sahara Desert has made it all the

way to Houston. The dust clouds surf on trade winds towards the Caribbean. And since the dust is rich

in minerals like iron, it's like an airborne delivery of fertilizer to marine life there. So when you get this

pulse of iron that comes, it's a, it's a micronutrient, you know, a trace metal that's needed by

all of life that all of a sudden is available, at least for a short amount of time.

Erin Lipp, a microbiologist at the University of Georgia. She and her team studied the phenomenon,

sampling waters in Barbados and the Florida Keys. And they found that these fertilizer dumps

seem to encourage bacterial blooms, including

vibrio species, some of which can cause cholera or food poisoning.

Vibrio and probably other bacteria that are really capable of responding to sort of this

feast that's provided to them. They just use it quite rapidly. So within that first 24 hours,

you see a very, very big population spike of these bacteria.

A spike of 50 to 30 times their usual numbers.

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