eli5: Does the salt water of the Oceans make aquatic Sealife less susceptible to infection?

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eli5: Does the salt water of the Oceans make aquatic Sealife less susceptible to infection?

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Something like 70% of the total biomass in the ocean is made up of single-cell organisms like bacteria, and viruses [kill about 20% of the total bacterial biomass in the ocean](https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro1750) every single day.