Toxic Algae, etc.

[badger2]

The Florida cracker is placating the sprayers. The sprayers should be fined and fired for polluting.

Florida (2008) Aphanizomenon
A comparative study of Florida strains of Cylindrospermopsis and Aphanizomenon for cylindrospermopsin production. - PubMed - NCBI

Jul 2019 Detroit River / Zebra Mussels / Aphanizomenon
Dreissenid (quagga and zebra mussel) veligers are adversely affected by bloom forming cyanobacteria. - PubMed - NCBI

Jul 2019 China / Aphanizomenon / Filtered Lake Water
Responses of water quality and phytoplankton assemblages to remediation projects in two hypereutrophic tributaries of Chaohu Lake. - PubMed - NCBI

 

[badger2]

What the Wisconsin DNR, et al, are not saying is that cyanobacteria link to dairy cattle in other ways than manure run-off: pasteurization of milk destroys the alkaline phosphatase contained in it. The paradox is that certain algae enslave others by manipulating alkaline phosphatase:

Enslavement in the water body by toxic Aphanizomenon ovalisporum, inducing alkaline phosphatase in phytoplanktons. - PubMed - NCBI

Cyanotoxins: a poison that frees phosphate. - PubMed - NCBI

 

[badger2]

Thus, part of the anal retention by Wisconsin DNR seems to be in not having told the public what precies lakes the genus Aphanizomenon was found, even if it was not a toxic species. We are still searching for that information.

 

[badger2]

24 Jul 2019 Algal Blooms: ORCA Survey Tests Your Doctor's Knowledge About Health Effects From Toxic Algae
Algal blooms: ORCA survey tests your doctor's knowledge about health effects from toxic algae

26 Jul 2019 Summertime, and Toxic Algae Are Blooming
Summertime, And Toxic Algae Is Blooming: Here's What You Need To Know

25 Jul 2019 New Medical Code Will Help Track Illnesses From Toxic Red Tide and Blue-Green Algae
New medical code will help track illnesses from toxic red tide and blue-green algae

Algal genomes are dynamic not static. Changes due to increasing pollution, heavy-metals, temperatures (heat-shock proteins, etc.) will play a part in their virulence and ability to form toxins.

 

[percysunshine]

So a bit of math. If we start with only one algae cell at 1:00 am Sunday morning, and it reproduces every 20 minutes (given an unlimited food and oxygen supply), by 4pm on Monday, the colony will have a mass greater than the mass of the planet earth.

That is just how these critters roll.

 

[badger2]

They are rolling with toxin-producing capability, too.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Subdivision fertilizer runoff makes Red Tide.

Outlaw TruGreen ChemLawn!

 

[badger2]

(2016) Red Tide Dinoflagellates / Fertilizer Runoff / Nitrates
The main nitrate transporter of the dinoflagellate Lingulodinium polyedrum is constitutively expressed and not responsible for daily variations in ... - PubMed - NCBI

 

[badger2]

The article in post #28 states: ' A recent example is Changjiang River in China where agricultural runoffs have contributed to a dramatic ~400% increase in nitrate concentration.'

 

[badger2]

28 Jul 2019 California Sea Lions Are Being Poisoned By Toxic Algae. Why This Year Is More Concerning
https://www.modbee.com/news/state/california/article231649218.html

 

[Muhammed]

 

[badger2]

Climate-Changing Irony of Petroleum Addiction

29 Jul 2019 New Jersey, Greenwood Lake Cancels Race
Greenwood Lake algae bloom cancels August powerboat race weekend in New Jersey end

 

[badger2]

Convergence: Toxic Algae, Legionellosis and Brain-Eating Amoebae

'Among opportunistic infections, Legionella is now probably the most notorious. Legionellae are aquatic organisms that have been isolated from a range of habitats, particularly natural thermal ponds and thermally polluted waters. These bacteria can be regarded as ubiquitous, having also been isolated from streams, rivers and the shores of lakes and from the ponds located in the blast zone of a volcano (Mt. St. Helen's). They are most commonly isolated from warmer waters (40 -60 degrees C). Legionella pneumophila has been found to be able to derive essential nutrients for growth from amoebae (23), flavobacteria (29), and cyanobacteria(26).

(23) Rowbotham TJ, (1980) Preliminary Report on the Pathogenicity of Legionella pneumophila for Freshwater and Soil Amoebae, J. Clin. Pathol. 33: 1179-83

(29) Wadowsky RM, et al (1983) Satellit Growth of Legionella pneumophila with an Environmental Isolate of Flavobacterium breve, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 43: 1104-10

(26) Tison DL, et al (1980) Utilization of Algal Extracellular Products by Legionella pneumophila, abstr. I-40, p. 91 Abstr. 80th Annu. Meet. Am. Soc. Microbiol. 1980, Washington, D.C.

(25) Tison DL, et al (1983) Legionella in Aquatic Habitats in the Mount St. Helens Blast Zone, Curr. Microbiol. 9: 345-8

 

[badger2]

Add Flesh-Eating Bacteria

Note that Pubmed leaves out reports (25) and (26), above, which author was also studying Vibrio (flesh-eating bacteria):

Tison DL
Error encountered - PubMed - NCBI

 

[badger2]

Add Streptococci

As the reader can see for Tison entries, the link to esculin by Vibrio vulnificus (flesh-eating bacteria) is hydrolysis of esculin. Group D Streptococci (Group A Streptococci are the major flesh-eating bacteria) also hydrolyze esculin:

Aesculin
Aesculin - Wikipedia
'....Streptococci group D hydrolyze esculin.'

 

[badger2]

The author Rowbotham TJ (23), finds an interesting link between Legionella and Naegleria (brain-eating amoebae):

Naegleria / Legionella (1980)
Preliminary report on the pathogenicity of Legionella pneumophila for freshwater and soil amoebae. - PubMed - NCBI

 

[badger2]

'It suggested that a vacuole, or amoeba full of legionellae, rather than free legionellae, could be the infective particle for man.'

 

[badger2]

Toledo, Ohio: Nanosensors, Cyanobacteria, etc
Toledo inventor aims to help good triumph over bad in Lake Erie

 

[badger2]

1 Aug 2019 New Jersey: Part of Hotacong Reopens
https://www.nj.com/sussex-county/20...toxic-algae-level-halts-water-activities.html

 

[badger2]

Algae-plagued Lake Hopatcong has swimming advisory lifted for a second portion of lake