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'90s eagle killer found to be toxic water weed
Sick prey sickened birds, scientists say by Bill Bowden | March 27, 2021 at 4:52 a.m.
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"We've known for a number of years that this disease appears to be related to the hydrilla and the algae that grows on the hydrilla," she said. "What this paper does is it closes that loop. They've actually identified that toxin."
There are several ways bromide could have gotten into the lakes. The research article cites natural sources of bromide (geologic origin) as well as power plants, fungicides and gasoline additives.
Ironically, bromide is sometimes used in herbicides in an attempt to control hydrilla...
Hunting the eagle killer: A cyanobacterial neurotoxin causes vacuolar myelinopathy
By Steffen Breinlinger, Tabitha J. Phillips, Brigette N. Haram, Jan Mare?, Jos? A. Mart?nez Yerena, Pavel Hrouzek, Roman Sobotka, W. Matthew Henderson, Peter Schmieder, Susan M. Williams, James D. Lauderdale, H. Dayton Wilde, Wesley Gerrin, Andreja Kust, John W. Washington, Christoph Wagner, Benedikt Geier, Manuel Liebeke, Heike Enke, Timo H. J. Niedermeyer, Susan B. Wilde
Science 26 Mar 2021
A deadly toxin that kills bald eagles originated from an environmental interaction between an invasive plant, a cyanobacterium, and bromide.
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