TOLEDO, Ohio — It has been 11 years since Toledo’s water crisis changed the way many look at algal blooms in Lake Erie.

Now, more than a decade later, a five-year, $6.5 million study at the University of Toledo aims to tackle another impact: how toxic algal bloom particles in the air impact people over time, especially those with pre-existing conditions like asthma.

“The study is extremely important because we know the toxins that are released from the harmful algal blooms can become aerosolized, so there’s the potential to breathe them in, but we do not know what the human health implications of that are,” says Dr. Steven Haller, an associate professor at UToledo and principal investigator of the study.

Dr. David Kennedy, a professor of medicine at UToledo, co-leads the Great Lakes A

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