Information on ALS Disease Clusters, BMAA Neurotoxins, Toxic Algae Blooms, Meth Water Table Comtamination #ALS #BMAA:
The Vincina Protocol Project is the first ever developed methodology for the environmental assessment of illegal dumping of toxic chemicals and the transference of the resulting BMAA neurotoxins to local land, produce and waterways, and its an impact on human health, particularly, as a trigger for ALS.
Conneaut, Ohio Area is host to a wide variety of environmental pollution problems, both from current industrial and transportation sources, and a legacy of pollution going back decades. Conneaut contains a large area with extensive toxic chemical pollution, which is subject to decades of cleanup talks with the EPA’s Superfund program.
The Vincina Protocol Project will be doing a special investigation, documented by our film crew, concerning toxc chemicals and gases seeping into local residential neighborhoods. Documentation will include following the EPA paper trail and taking and analyzing water samples form local waterways. This will also include an investigation into the diversion of one stream, located near a toxic dump site, which originally flowed east to west for thousands of years, that was re-directed to flow north towards Lake Road and out into Lake Erie. During heavy rains, a large amount of water from this stream could suddenly form its own channel through your yard or seep under your house, causing damage to your landscaping and the release of the BMAA toxin. There is mounting evidence that certain Conneaut leaders may have changed the natural course of the flowing water on their own, without public debate..
Do you have information on ALS, BMAA or neurotoxins in our water supply? Contact me on the form below!
the Vincina Protocol 
Here’s a National Institute of Health peer reviewed science paper from January 2014 that confirms a correlation between toxic waters and ALS. Cyanobacteria blooms are increasing, and this is an emerging public health matter the public needs to be informed of.
Here’s the link to the NIH paper, and quoting from it:
Mapping amyotrophic lateral sclerosis lake risk factors
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922844/
“Evidence has shown potential linkages between water quality, cyanobacteria, and ALS clusters [9]. Cyanobacteria are ubiquitous throughout all ecosystems and are particularly noxious when anthropogenic eutrophication of water bodies causes large concentrations to form “blooms”. Cyanobacteria are well-known to produce acute and chronic toxins that have human health implications, including cylindrospermopsins, lyngbyatoxins, anatoxins, lipopolysaccharide endotoxins and beta methyl-amino-alanine (BMAA) [11]. The 50- to 100-fold higher incidence of ALS documented amongst the Chamorro people of Guam implicated the cyanobacterial neurotoxin BMAA found in components of their diet [9,12-14].
The examination of other ecosystems has demonstrated the presence of BMAA in fish and crustaceans in the human food chain in Florida, Chesapeake Bay, France and Sweden [15-18]. BMAA has been demonstrated to be concentrated in the brains of ALS patients (but not controls) in Florida [19] and to be mis-incorporated into neuronal proteins via the L-serine tRNA-synthetase system [20-22]. Clusters of ALS have been reported near cyanobacterial bloom outbreaks in France, Japan, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin [23-27]. Caller et al. [28] shows a statistically significant 2.3-fold increased incidence of ALS in subjects residing within 0.5 miles of a New Hampshire lake that experienced cyanobacteria blooms. Potential routes of exposure include aerosolization, dermal contact, ingestion of water, and dietary exposure through the aquatic food web. The Baltic Sea suffers extensive cyanobacterial blooms generating BMAA as well as bottom-dwelling animals that contain BMAA and are a human food source [18]….”
The NY Times has reported on all the untested seafood coming into our markets and onto our plates from China, farmed in toxic waters. Another exposure pathway that isn’t being regulated.
This is a serious public health issue. I will be sharing your excellent work and website.
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Bill, I am not sure if I got back to you, but I wanted to make sure you know how much we appreciated your comment and information shared. I will be including some of this information in an upcoming post, for all to read. Please subscribe to our blog. follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and keep in touch. It is hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that so many people are not taking this situation seriously, but it comforts me that people, such as you, are aware and do care about our precious drinking water supply and our public health. Thanks again, Bill.
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