And Estrogen?
And what other water soluble crap that gets into the sewage?
Women’s birth control chemicals are ending up the same places.
—I put this in the same category as the “news” of about forty years ago that birth control pills, filtering into the water supply, were going to make us all sterile and feminine—
So fish now have personalities? Behavior patterns yes, personalities no. Where are the eco-crazies for these poor guppies? Paging Al Gore, Greta, and no-neck Hogg.
bfl
Zombies? Sounds like those fish need a little coke.
“It’s turning the freaking frogs gay!” - Alex Jones
Is it getting into our water too?
With all the drugs in the water smoking a salmon may take on an entirely new meaning.
Fish are most effected by both. Never mind the humans
Besides, how can a guppy even HAVE a personality when they aren't persons. Shouldn't they have guppynalities?
Ummmmmmm, zombie blue gill fillets.
They are now happier fish.
Jazminerose is going to tell authorities that researchers tortured fish and should be federally charged.
Zombie Guppies!!
The inhumanity!!
Say, that’s a good lookin’ perch there! But no personality whatsoever.
Good. Now maybe they can do humans.
These crap ass drugs are making folks everywhere stoopid.
Oh no wait, that would be public edumacation.
Pharmaceuticals are emitted from our bodies, homes, and factories, entering waterways and accumulating in fish, bugs, mollusks, crustaceans, birds, and warm-blooded animals. Areas around drug-manufacturing plants are hot spots for this kind of pollution. So too are watercourses near hospitals and aging sewage infrastructure. But medicinal compounds have also been detected in remote environments, imbuing surface waters even in Antarctica.
Waterways can contain traces of many drugs—among them antifungals, antimicrobials, and antibacterials, as well as ones for pain, fertility, mood, sleeplessness, and neurodegenerative diseases. If current trends persist, scientists estimate, the volume of pharmaceuticals diffusing into fresh water could increase by two-thirds by 2050. Recent modeling shows that a platypus living in a contaminated stream in Melbourne is already likely to ingest more than half a recommended adult dose of antidepressants every day. More https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/pharmaceutical-pollution/586006/
One of the ways drugs get into our water supply is that people are flushing their unused prescriptions down the toilet. While water from sewage is filtered and chlorinated, the drugs remain in the water. The particulate is too fine to be caught in any city sewer filtration system. But, if you test the water, there they are. Anything from epilepsy drugs, to antibiotics, to diabetes drugs, to antidepressants are found in our water supply.
The less obvious way that pharmaceuticals enter the water supply is that patients who take drugs cannot metabolize the whole pill. So about 25% of that drug is flushed down the toilet
A study done in a Colorado river found that estrogen-containing drugs in the water are turning male fish into female fish. The Associated Press’ National Investigative Team ran their own tests and found pharmaceuticals in the drinking water of 41 million Americans. Philadelphia alone tested positive for 56 different drugs in their water supply. https://www.focusforhealth.org/drinking-prescription-drugs-tap-water/
A nationwide study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1999 and 2000 found low levels of pharmaceuticals—including antibiotics, hormones, contraceptives and steroids—in 80 percent of the rivers and streams sampled. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pharmaceuticals-in-the-water/
Many of the more than 4,000 prescription medications used for human and animal health ultimately find their way into the environment. They can pollute directly from pharmaceutical manufacturing plants or from humans and animals. As these chemicals make their way into terrestrial and aquatic environments, they can affect the health and behavior of wildlife, including insects, fish, birds, and more. https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/science/pharmaceuticals-water?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects