Four commonly found sunscreen ingredients can awaken dormant viruses in the symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae that live inside reef-building coral species.
The chemicals cause the viruses to replicate until their algae hosts explode, spilling viruses into the surrounding seawater, where they can infect neighboring coral communities.
Those four ingredients are as follows:
Parabens
Cinnamate
Benzophenone
“A camphor derivative” (likely methylbenzylidene camphor)
The chemicals cause the viruses to replicate until their algae hosts explode, spilling viruses into the surrounding seawater, where they can infect neighboring coral communities.
Those four ingredients are as follows:
Parabens
Cinnamate
Benzophenone
“A camphor derivative” (likely methylbenzylidene camphor)
