Do Seas Make Us Sick? Surfers May Have the Answer

Kapono, a 29-year-old biochemist earning his doctorate at the University of California, San Diego, heads up the Surfer Biome Project, a unique effort to determine whether routine exposure to the ocean alters the microbial communities of the body, and whether those alterations might have consequences for surfers — and for the rest of us.

"Do Seas Make Us Sick? Surfers May Have the Answer" is from the April 03, 2017 Science section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Andrey Smith and narrated by Caroline Miller.