Sentinel Animals in a One Health Approach to Harmful Cyanobacterial and Algal Blooms

Sentinel Animals in a One Health Approach to Harmful Cyanobacterial and Algal Blooms.

People, domestic animals, and wildlife are all exposed to numerous environmental threats, including harmful algal blooms (HABs). However, because animals exhibit wide variations in diet, land use and biology, they are often more frequently or heavily exposed to HAB toxins than are people occupying the same habitat, making them sentinels for human exposures. Historically, we have taken advantage...

Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms: Chapter 38: Integrating Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: Application to the Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Bloom Problem

Environmental and public health policy continues to evolve in response to new and complex social, economic and environmental drivers. Globalization and centralization of commerce, evolving patterns of land use (e.g., urbanization, deforestation), and technological advances in such areas as manufacturing and development of genetically modified foods have created new and complex classes of stress...

Harmful Algal Blooms and Public Health.

The five most commonly recognized Harmful Algal Bloom related illnesses include Ciguatera poisoning, Paralytic Shellfish poisoning, Neurotoxin Shellfish poisoning, Diarrheic Shellfish Poisoning and Amnesic Shellfish poisoning. Although they are each the product of different toxins, toxin assemblages or HAB precursors these clinical syndromes have much in common. Exposure occurs through the cons...

Occurrence of Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms Workgroup report.

Appreciation is given to all those whose efforts made the production of this book possible. Thanks are due to the editors, Anthony Fristachi, US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Cincinnati, Ohio and Jim Sinclair, PhD, US Environmental Protection Agency. Thanks are also due to Dr. Jeffrey Johansen of John Carroll University for his review and revisions to the ...

Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms: Chapter 15: Cyanotoxins Workgroup Report