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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The sheriff said in the NYT article that it’s the most mysterious case he’s seen in his career. If it was as simple as heat stroke, he wouldn’t have called in the FBI and laboratories around the country to work around the clock on this case. My theory is that the illegal growers’ fertilizer run-off and the high temps contributed to a higher than usual amount of toxic algae making it even more poisonous than usual. They were well prepared for the hike so wouldn’t have suffered from heat stroke but for being weakened or even killed by the algae. Perhaps they got overheated and took a dip in the water to cool off. Perhaps Oski went in first and stirred up the blooms. The toxin can be ingested, inhaled, or dermal. Maybe the baby died from heatstroke after the parents were incapacitated. I doubt they would have given the baby the water to drink or even put her in the water.[/quote] Why are you assuming they wouldn't have drunk the water? They had the bad judgment to undertake an 8+ mile hike on a 97+ degree day. You think the bad decisions stopped there?[/quote]

They had water left over in their pack. Maybe they drank the water too saving the clean water for the baby. That’s why I said maybe the parents and dog succumbed to the poison and baby died of heatstroke. But anatoxin can be inhaled so maybe getting in the water (they themselves or Oski) stirred things up and they inhaled it. You keep saying they had bad judgment. I don’t know if hiking in that heat, by itself, without toxin, would have killed them. I myself have hiked or run in pretty extreme conditions and was no worse for the wear. I always went prepared (as the sheriff said they were) and have years of conditioning and acclimating under my belt.[/quote]

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