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The waters off Cape Cod and north to Canada are warming faster than 99 percent of the world's ocean, according to a 2016 study. One of the consequences: The marine bacteria Vibrio, responsible for 80,000 cases of food-borne illness, wound infections, and 300 deaths annually in the U.S., could expand geographically and its growing season could lengthen as ocean temperatures in the Northeast increase by 5.4 to 7 degrees by 2100. [Source: Cape Cod Times]
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