After the 2022 storm, the state saw its highest number of vibriosis cases in more than 30 years.
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Hurricane Ian slammed into southwest Florida as a Category 4 storm in September last year, killing 149 people—the most deaths attributable to a single hurricane in the state in nearly a century. But the official death count didn’t include one of the most gruesome ways people died as a result of the storm.
Colwell and her colleagues found that flooding brought on by Hurricane Ian caused millions of gallons of water to run into the ocean, carrying nutrients with it. The storm also stirred up sediment and warm water off the coast of Florida.
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