Then, we start to follow Dr. Joann Burkholder, she is an aquatic botany professor that is taken in by North Carolina’s Landscape and gets a teaching position

Still overall, I found the book to be very interesting and educational. It will definitely make anyone think about what we are doing to our environment and what our environment might be doing to fight back. So, remember: Don’t drink the water.

The description of the backbiting amongst colleagues and the treachery of the state would seem to be irrelevant and distracting, until one realizes that all of these behaviors get in the way of Dr. Burkholder and other responsible people who wish to inform the public of the danger of Pfiesteria. There have been many new organisms in the news lately, but Pfiesteria is one that is much closer to our shores than one like Ebola. The public needs to know as soon as possible when a health threat manifests itself, and this book shows that all too often, personalities get in the way and crucial time and information are lost. In addition to the mystery, the reader receives a crash course in the world of college politics.

If Pfiesteria was going to be stopped, she also needed to figure out how this once unknown dinoflagellate was able to kill fish by the thousands, started to harm humans, and why it had chosen now to turn into this killer. The answer to the latter question came when Burkholder and her colleagues began experimenting with the nutrient levels that Pfiesteria prefers. They found when they increased the levels of nitrogen and phosphorous in the water, the Pfiesteria became much more active. When these nutrients were increased in laboratory aquariums and fish were added, the water would soon become so concentrated with toxin that most types of fish would be killed in a matter of minutes. Nitrogen and phosphorous are chief components of fertilizer. Along the banks of the Pamlico River, the Texas gulf company operates a huge open-pit phosphate mine that causes elevated phosphorous levels in that river. In July

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