After tenants at an Arlington apartment complex expressed their frustrations about unsanitary living conditions, the News4JAX I-TEAM took water samples to an independent laboratory for analysis, and according to a local Biology professor, the results are potentially unhealthy.
tenants at an Arlington apartment complex expressed their frustrations about unsanitary living conditions
“From that tiny amount of water, that I put on these Petri dishes, after 24 hours of incubation, I noticed vast, vast, amounts of bacteria,” Cassamata said. “Those same bacteria if you ingest them and they try to get back into our body in those same positions, they can be very problematic. E. coli in your colon is not a big deal, but E. coli in your stomach or other places could be very problematic,” Cassamata said.“Because enteric bacteria are things that make up feces,” Cassamata said.
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