It would kill off a lot of not-ocean-based living things (including you, if you drank it for long enough), but the things that live in the ocean are, by nature, adapted to it. So the kinds of things that can infect ocean life, which obviously have to live in the sea, aren’t stopped by the salinity of ordinary seawater.
It would kill off a lot of not-ocean-based living things (including you, if you drank it for long enough), but the things that live in the ocean are, by nature, adapted to it. So the kinds of things that can infect ocean life, which obviously have to live in the sea, aren’t stopped by the salinity of ordinary seawater.
No. Salt water can be an effective antiseptic against *some* types of bacteria, but the ocean isn’t really salty enough to have any meaningful antiseptic effect, and the ocean is absolutely teaming with bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other organisms that can infect marine life and even land-based life such as humans. Humans can catch some really nasty infections from ocean water, and there are a number of diseases that are occur in both humans and marine mammals and can be transmitted between us.
No. Salt water can be an effective antiseptic against *some* types of bacteria, but the ocean isn’t really salty enough to have any meaningful antiseptic effect, and the ocean is absolutely teaming with bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other organisms that can infect marine life and even land-based life such as humans. Humans can catch some really nasty infections from ocean water, and there are a number of diseases that are occur in both humans and marine mammals and can be transmitted between us.
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