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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concentrated salt is harmful to organisms used to freshwater, but microbes in the ocean have long since adapted to it, or rather they were here first and freshwater and terrestrial microbes came after