Thanks to our colleague Davis Harper we have been alerted to this investigation in Mariposa County--did harmful algal blooms kill a family of three along the south fork of the Merced River?
This is why we have been on high alert regarding the proliferation of harmful algal blooms in the Delta....
Toxic algae in Sierra National Forest, now being considered in the mysterious deaths of a family this week, was being retested on Thursday by the California State Water Resources Control Board and Mariposa County.
The state agency said it received the report of fatalities near the south fork of the Merced River, about 2.6 miles above the main stem, on Wednesday. Mariposa residents John Gerrish, Ellen Chung, their daughter, Miju, and family dog, Oski, were found dead in this area on Tuesday after not returning from a day hike in the Hites Cove area of Devil’s Gulch, between Mariposa and Yosemite National Park.
The family may have been exposed to cyanobacterial toxins, the water board said...
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