Pharmaceutical pollution that enters our waterways due to inadequate wastewater treatment processes is having unforeseen impacts on fish. In a collection of three recent studies, led by PhD candidates Michael Bertram and Jake Martin, and Honours student Jack Fursdon, exposure of fish to the widespread pharmaceutical contaminant fluoxetine (marketed as Prozac) caused changes in behaviour, morphology and sperm production.
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