Impacts of Florida red tides on coastal communities

Backer, Lorraine C.

doi:10.1016/j.hal.2008.11.008

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“…For example, past research has examined media and rhetoric involving environmental issues (Peeples, 2005; Peeples, 2011; Peeples et al, 2014). It is clear there is concern among scholars about media coverage of environmental problems, but little empirical evidence has been provided in assessing the social and cultural impact of harmful algae blooms, such as mass media's influence on public health and the economy (Backer, 2009; Bauer, 2006). Adopting the social amplification of risk framework to the HAB context, the spiral process of mutual influence between risk event and human responses suggests many potential social and cultural impacts, including: (1) enduring mental perceptions, images, and attitudes; (2) impact on local business and economic activities; (3) changes in risk monitoring and management; and (4) changes in political and social pressure, among others (Kasperson et al, 1988).…”

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Risk in Daily Newspaper Coverage of Red Tide Blooms in Southwest Florida

Garrison

Ullmann

et al. 2015

Applied Environmental Education & Communication

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This study investigated newspaper coverage of Florida red tide blooms in four metropolitan areas of Southwest Florida during a 25-year period, 1987-2012. We focused on how journalists framed red tide stories with respect to environmental risk, health risk, and economic risk. We determined risk to be a key factor in this news coverage, being an aspect of coverage of red tide itself in terms of environmental risk, tourism risk, and public health risk. The study found that red tide news coverage is most often framed as an environmental story.

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Risk in Daily Newspaper Coverage of Red Tide Blooms in Southwest Florida

Garrison

Ullmann

et al. 2015

Applied Environmental Education & Communication

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“…Our research comprised significant spatial and temporal extensions of earlier work that demonstrated the relationships between FRT bloom events and human respiratory and digestive illnesses in Sarasota County, Florida (Kirkpatrick et al 2004;Backer 2009;Fleming et al 2011). …”

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“…Although some authors have pointed to FRT blooms as a source of digestive illnesses (Kirkpatrick et al 2006(Kirkpatrick et al , 2010Backer 2009;Fleming et al 2011), this effect has been discounted largely because of an effective program to monitor and manage SHAs to mitigate the harvesting of shellfish potentially contaminated with brevetoxins. Because the pathway that brevetoxins take from K. brevis to humans is uncertain, our result that digestive illnesses are related to FRT bloom events was surprising.…”

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“…Human respiratory and digestive illnesses are known to have been caused by exposures to brevetoxins associated with FRT blooms (Kirkpatrick et al 2004(Kirkpatrick et al , 2006(Kirkpatrick et al , 2008(Kirkpatrick et al , 2010Fleming et al 2005Fleming et al , 2007Fleming et al , 2009Fleming et al , 2011Backer 2009;Hoagland et al 2009). These illnesses may exhibit varying severities, leading to increases in costs associated with purchases of over-the-counter medications; self-treatment by asthmatics utilizing prescription pharmaceuticals; visits to outpatient clinics, doctors, and emergency departments; or hospital inpatient admissions.…”

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The human health effects of Florida Red Tide (FRT) blooms: An expanded analysis

Hoagland

Jin

Beet

et al. 2014

Environment International

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Abstract:Human respiratory and digestive illnesses can be caused by exposures to brevetoxins from blooms of the marine alga Karenia brevis, also known as Florida red tide (FRT). K. brevis requires macro-nutrients to grow; although the sources of these nutrients have not been resolved completely, they are thought to originate both naturally and anthropogenically. The latter sources comprise atmospheric depositions, industrial effluents, land runoffs, or submerged groundwater discharges. To date, there has been only limited research on the extent of human health risks and economic impacts due to FRT. We hypothesized that FRT blooms were associated with increases in the numbers of emergency room visits and hospital inpatient admissions for both respiratory and digestive illnesses. We sought to estimate these relationships and to calculate the costs of associated adverse health impacts. We developed environmental exposure-response models to test the effects of FRT blooms on human health, using data from diverse sources. We estimated the FRT bloom-associated illness costs, using extant data and parameters from the literature.When controlling for resident population, a proxy for tourism, and seasonal and annual effects, we found that increases in respiratory and digestive illnesses can be explained by FRT blooms.Specifically, FRT blooms were associated with human health and economic effects in older cohorts (≥ 55 years of age) in six southwest Florida counties. Annual costs of illness ranged from $60,000 to $700,000 annually, but these costs could exceed $1.0 million per year for severe, long-lasting FRT blooms, such as the one that occurred during 2005. Assuming that the average annual illness costs of FRT blooms persist into the future, using a discount rate of 3%, the capitalized costs of future illnesses would range between $2-24 million.3

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“…Florida alone was reported to lose upwards of 20 million dollars a year in tourism revenue because of the closure and subsequent cleanup of beaches 4 . Extensive monitoring programs of shellfish beds are conducted by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services with bed closures when K. brevis levels exceed 5000 cells/l near or in harvesting areas 5 .…”

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Impacts of Florida red tides on coastal communities

Cited by 36 publications

References 25 publications

Risk in Daily Newspaper Coverage of Red Tide Blooms in Southwest Florida

Risk in Daily Newspaper Coverage of Red Tide Blooms in Southwest Florida

The human health effects of Florida Red Tide (FRT) blooms: An expanded analysis

Synthesis of a PbTx-2 photoaffinity and fluorescent probe and an alternative synthetic route to photoaffinity probes

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