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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 ...
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
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 ...
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A new sex trend among college students is getting attention on TikTok − and it has doctors worried.. That trend is using honey packets, a controversial supplement marketed for sexual enhancement ...
Older adults are more susceptible to the effects of alcohol. Binge drinking is on the rise among older adults. Here’s why it’s more dangerous and how to spot the signs
In online settings, it was used as early as 2004. In 2007, the term "brain rot" was used by Twitter users to describe dating game shows, video games and "hanging out online". [10] Usage of the phrase increased online in the 2010s before becoming rapidly more popular in 2020 on Discord, when it became an Internet meme. [10]
She didn’t drink or smoke. She’d only started taking the pain pills for migraines, but then she couldn’t go a day without them. When the pills started to wear off, she’d take another one or two. “Here I am, 50 years old, acting like the big stupid,” she says. “I’m a mom, a wife, an adult woman. I felt terrible about myself.”