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[crappiedoc]

Thanks for the heads up doc...I was thinking about headed up there....guess not....so what your saying is that there is a seasonal condition that has been going on for over twenty years and nobody knows what causes it?...

That's a pretty good summation of it. As it stands now, there seems to be no stated reason or cause. Back in the 90's the white bass population was hammered by this very disease, almost wiped them out. Honestly, I can't say this is directly harmful to humans, after all as you pointed out it's been ongoing for about a quarter century to my knowledge. Its not something thats been directly attributable to illnes as say B-G algae, but as long as it remains unidentified, who knows. Look at all the causes of cancer, many of which don't show up over night. It's not that bacteria/viruses/ fungi all cause cancer but more so the mutations to overcome illness which causes your immune system to become impaired leading to cancer. Immunizations work on viral infections and antibiotics are for bacterial infections. Once any of the 3 bacteria/virus'/fungi are in your system, they are there for the rest of your life. Chicken pox as a child leads to immunity from it (viral), however later in your life it also causes shingles. Simple things like this are the reasons for my concerns.
FishTaxi, Thanks for posting the B-G algae link. The water at Kanop is not compromised due to B-G algae, who knows, whats going on now might lead to it's immunity from algal blooms. Now that's an interesting thought in itself.

[steveinsene]

Highly doubt what is going on at Kanopolis is going to make the lake immune from bg algae blooms, I know you are just throwing it out there! But Blue Green algae are nothing new and have been in your lakes as long as they have been around....the difference between now and in yrs past is they only recently started testing for such things. Blue Green algae is very common and causes no problems until above warning levels scientists have deemed unsafe. Not something new just ask the biologist he will tell you the same thing. Now increasing nutrient load coming into lakes making them more eutrophic may be making it worse but it is definitely not something new. So in summary blue green algae=not new but testing for blue green algae=new and recent.