Ore. and Wash. Score High in Ocean Water Quality | Heal the Bay
Sep 29, 2010 . SANTA MONICA, CA – Pacific Northwest ocean users enjoyed very good . Swimming in polluted water can cause upper respiratory infections, .
http://www.healthebay.org/node/1124

HOW SURFING AFTER RAIN AFFECTS YOUR HEALTH - Surfline
Chad Nelsen discusses what types of infections/diseases one is exposed to by . In most places, and especially in Southern California, ocean water quality after .
http://www.surfline.com/community/whoknows/whoknows.cfm?id=1157

Erase the Waste - State Water Resources Control Board
Welcome to the State Water Resources Control Board . Santa Monica Bay and the Pacific Ocean suffer dramatically from the effects of storm water pollution. . found that storm water pollution in the ocean leads to increased risk of viral infections, earaches, . the authority of the California Environmental Protection Agency .
http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/outreach/erase_waste/beaches.shtml

Klamath River: Whale's death blamed on infection - SFGate
Dec 30, 2011 . Klamath River: Whale's death blamed on infection . gray whale is seen with it's mother in the Klamath River in Klamath, Calif. The gray whale nicknamed "MaMa ", died last summer from a fungal skin infection caused by the river's fresh water . The calf made it back to the Pacific Ocean but the mother whale .
http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Klamath-River-Whale-s-death-blamed-on-infection-2431710.php

Marcus Eriksen describes ocean gyre of plastic garbage | Earth ...
Aug 31, 2009 . Plastic trash is collecting in vast areas of the north Pacific Ocean – and . to Marcus Eriksen of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation in California. . ends to clean toxins and debris before releasing that water to the oceans. . babies at birth, many ear infections and I don't know what else in particular.
http://earthsky.org/earth/pacific-ocean-gyre-filled-with-plastic-trash

Red Tide
The water in Penn Cove (Coupeville, WA) turned orange on 5/8/04 due to a "red tide. . Alexandrium catenella - found along the Pacific coast from California to Alaska; Karenia . Major factors influencing red tide events include warm ocean surface . against eating infected shellfish and against swimming in infected waters.
http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/redtide/index.html

State's Summer Beach Water-Quality on the Rise | Heal the Bay
May 24, 2012 . Central and Northern California ocean beaches also continued their trend . and weekly samples taken from sites along the entire U.S. Pacific Coast. . such as stomach flu, ear infections, upper respiratory infections and skin .
http://www.healthebay.org/media-center/press-releases/states-summer-beach-water-quality-rise

Sevengill Sharks, Notorynchus cepedianus at MarineBio.org
They inhabit waters of the subtropics at 56°N - 55°S, 131°W - 177°E. Sevengills . their range in the eastern Pacific Ocean, from British Colombia to southern California, . A novel avian influenza virus has acquired the ability to infect aquatic .
http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=1521

Salmon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, populations of several species are restricted to fresh water through their . waters of Alaska and British Columbia and as far south as Central California . to the Pacific Ocean, the second host releases a stage infective to salmon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon