Kate Nierenberg

TL;DR: It is indicated that recreational activities in water bodies that experience toxin-producing cyanobacterial blooms can generate aerosolized cyanotoxins, making inhalation a potential route of exposure.

TL;DR: The Review includes a brief discussion of the Florida red tide organisms and their toxins, and then focuses on the effects of these toxins on animals and humans, including how these effects predict what the authors might expect to see in exposed people.

TL;DR: The study indicates the importance of systematic sampling, even when using qualitative descriptors, the use of validation resolution to evaluate forecast capabilities, and the need to match forecast and validation resolutions.

TL;DR: This is the first study to report that water-based recreational activities can expose people to very low concentrations of aerosol-borne microcystins; another field study was conducted to assess exposures to higher concentrations of these algal toxins.

TL;DR: The results suggest that self-reported symptoms are a valuable measure of the extent of health effects from exposure to aerosolized brevetoxins in asthmatic populations, possibly at the lower threshold for inducing a biologic response (i.e., toxicity).