Blue Green Algae

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>Seven  Creeks  Roadside  Spring Water</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Seven Creeks Roadside Spring Water"><B>home</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id427.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Health "><B><IMG SRC="0720e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A><B>  </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>    </B><A HREF="id790.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Medical Clay "><B><IMG SRC="0710e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id792.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="New Cancer Drug? "><B><IMG SRC="0730e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> Have you ever tasted public water that is musty smelling or earthy tasting? If you have it would be wise not to drink or bathe in it  until you have determined that it does not have  toxins.</div> <div> The same applies to swimming in ponds.</div> </td> <td valign="top" height=398 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <I>Blue Green Algae </I></div> <bR> <div> From the Coorperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment in Australia.</div> <bR> <div> Blue-Green algae are a natural part of water, however, they are not algae at all but a type of bacteria that rely on light for their energy and are called cyanobacteria. In late summer you may have seen it as a green film on a pond or lake. When large algae blooms occur, some, but not all,  can form endotoxins, which produce allergic reactions, neurotoxins, which damage the nerves, or hepatoxins, which damage the liver. </div> <bR> <div> Blue-green algae toxins are colorless, ordorless and can remain present in water weeks after the blue-green algae dissappear. They are NOT destroyed by boiling the water. They can only be removed by nature or a special water treatment procedure. Killing the blue-green algae does not elimnate the toxins, but may increase them by detaching the toxins from the algae. This has been done by those not familiar with the problem. </div> <bR> <div> From Scottland The Sunday Herald April 3, 2005 Rob Edwards</div> <bR> <div> An international team or researchers have detected a neurotoxin in 29 out of 30 samples of Blue-green algae tested. The samples were taken from a variety of sources around the world. The toxin is a naturally occurring amino acid know as beta-methyl-amino-alanine (BMAA) and has been blamed for casuing a high incidence of a disease simialr to Alzheimers amongst the  Chamorro people on the island of Guam in the Pacific. More studies are needed to confirm the reseacrch findings.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>