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Hanson-Young concerned about health impacts of algal bloom
Hanson-Young said she remained concerned about the health impacts on people related to the algal bloom, saying “anecdotally, health concerns and symptoms are mounting every day from people who live, work, and play along our coastline”.
We need a much better and robust health advice regime. The anecdotal evidence now that people who are down living by the sea, where the foam and the sea mist, where the bloom has been, are getting sick, that the irritations, the cold-like symptoms, the respiratory systems, the rashes, you know, the government advises that this goes away in a few days.
We’re finding that people who live down in these areas are being impacted every day and they feel like the government is just not responding with the full force of resources that’s needed.
It’s clear that the scale of the government response just doesn’t match the scale of the disaster that we have here, whether it’s the economic impacts, the loss of fishing, the loss of jobs, the loss of tourism, the health impacts … And then, of course, the huge job that is needed to restore the local environment to make it more resilient to this toxic algae.
Source: World news | The Guardian.
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