Blue-Green Algae Toxicity

Hepatoxicity

• highly lethal algal growth on ponds in summer
  • can be extremely toxic once the algae die and breakdown
• poisons mainly livestock and birds - sometimes dogs
• 'fast death' factor on bloom suggested for some cases with little other lesions in the body

Clinical

• prostration and death
• perhaps convulsions
• gastroenteritis in lesser cases

Gross

• haemorrhagic gastroenteritis
• massive or periacinar hepatic necrosis