Researchers: Breathing blue-green algae could cause liver disease, other illnesses

Researchers at Ohio State University previously tied a cluster of toxic blooms and a cluster of non-alcohol related liver disease in people, which brings us back to Dr. Parson's work.� ?That could be why people were experiencing non-alcoholic liver damage by breathing it in,? he said.� Cyanobacteria produces the liver toxin Microcystin and the brain toxin BMAA, which scientists have associated with neurodegenerative diseases like ALS -- though they cannot say it causes them.