Hypoxia and Medicine

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Summary: hypoxia due to accumulation of dead organic matter This oxygen deficiency reduces bottom dwelling life Problems are particularly bad along the Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexico In latter a dead zone forms along LA and TX coasts adjacent to the outflows of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers This zone rivals those of the Black and Baltic seas Hypoxia occurs from late

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