Blue-Green Algae Toxicity

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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