Can algae toxins make you sick? CDC seeks South Florida volunteers to find out
Video: Lake Okeechobee residents react to CDC research on health effects of blue-green algae
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Promising incentives and clinical results, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is again seeking volunteers for a study on the health effects of cyanobacteria.
The federal agency announced Thursday it will start new research on people exposed to cyanotoxins in South Florida “during the 2021 algal bloom season.”
That season seems close at hand, as a massive Lake Okeechobee bloom moves toward the state’s east and west coasts down the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie rivers, Lee County s health department is warning of algae toxins in the Caloosahatchee near the W.P. Franklin Lock and environmental groups have asked Gov. Ron DeSantis to declare an algae-triggered state of emergency.
LEBANON, Tennessee (WSMV) Police are still investigating the double murder-suicide that took place in two counties on Monday.
Shaun Varsos killed his wife and her mother in their Whispering Oaks Drive home in Lebanon on Monday morning before he returned to Nashville where he died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Family, friends and neighbors are still devastated from the “senseless” murder of Deborah Sisco and her daughter Marie Varsos, who had recently filed for a divorce from Shaun Varsos.
Friends said Sisco was a friend to everyone.
“She never knew anybody that was not a friend. It was like you were almost instant friends when you talked to her,” said Eleanor Zimmerle, a friend and coworker of Sisco.