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Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) bloom on Lake Erie (United States) in 2009. These kinds of algae can cause harmful algal bloom. A harmful algal bloom (HAB), or excessive algae growth, sometimes called a red tide in marine environments, is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts to other organisms by production of natural algae-produced toxins, water deoxygenation, mechanical damage to ...
During the interrogations, Ogorodnik offered to write a full confession and asked for his pen. Inside the pen cap was a hidden cyanide pill, which when bitten on, caused Ogorodnik to die before he hit the floor, according to the Soviets. [67] On 18 November 1978, Jonestown. A total of 909 individuals died in Jonestown, a number of them from ...
A ten day Health Advisory was calculated for different ages which is considered protective of non-carcinogenic adverse health effects over a ten-day exposure to microcystins in drinking water: 0.3 μg/L for bottle-fed infants and young children of pre-school age and 1.6 μg/L for children of school age through adults. [50]: 28–29
than adults to the effects of pollution. Exposure to environmental pollutants during important times of physiological development can lead to long-lasting health problems, dysfunction, and disease.2 Children’s lung functioning is not yet fully developed.3–5 Compared to adults, they breathe in greater levels of polluted air relative
PDF and full text (HTML) versions will be made available soon. Mercury from chlor-alkali plants: measured concentrations in food product sugar
These expansive cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms, known as cyanoHABs, increase the amount of cyanotoxins in the surrounding water, threatening the health of both aquatic and terrestrial organisms. [6] Some species of cyanobacteria that produce anatoxin-a don't produce surface water blooms but instead form benthic mats. Many cases of anatoxin ...
“Personally, if I had to choose being bitten by a newborn copperhead or an adult, I would choose a newborn because of the potentially much smaller quantity of venom.” Bites are rarely fatal.
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