Case closed on decades old mystery of American bald eagle deaths – Chemistry World

Chemical forensic work has solved the decades-old mystery of why bald eagles and other US wildlife have been dying of a severe neurodegenerative disease. The scientists have determined that the culprit is a neurotoxin produce by cynanobacteria that grow on invasive aquatic plants.
Study co-author Susan Wilde, an aquatic scientistat the University of Georgia, identified the previously unknown cyanobacterium that appeared to cause the disease known as avian vacuolar myelinopathy (AVM) on the leaves…

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