Sentences with phrase «ballast water containing»

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Last year, for instance, a team led by aquatic ecologist Gregory Ruiz of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, found that ballast water from ships entering the Chesapeake Bay contained Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera.

Although no cases of cholera were reported in Alabama, ballast - water samples collected later contained the epidemic - causing strain of cholera, and this incident highlighted the capability of ballast water to transport pathogens.