 doubt during the summer months we hear the term algae blooms and you may have heard in various news stories in the past that they could be quite dangerous to humans and especially to pets or livestock so we're going to talk about that this morning and we're joined by will reynolds with the department of health and welfare and uh will first of all let's just talk about they're called algae blooms but they're also known by some other names like blue green algae and then there's the scientific term and i'm going to let you pronounce that