BP dispersants 'causing sickness' - Features. Two-year-old Gavin Tillman of Pass Christian, Mississippi, has been diagnosed with severe upper respiratory, sinus, and viral infections. His temperature has reached more than 39 degrees since September 15, yet his sicknesses continue to worsen. His parents, some doctors, and environmental consultants believe the child's ailments are linked to exposure to chemicals spilt by BP during its Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. Gavin's father, mother, and cousin, Shayleigh, are also facing serious health problems. Their symptoms are being experienced by many others living along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Widely banned toxic dispersants Injected with at least 4.9 million barrels of oil during the BP oil disaster of last summer, the Gulf has suffered the largest accidental marine oil spill in history.
According to Naman, poly-aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from this toxic mix are making people sick. "I’m scared of what I'm finding. Commercial fisherman Donny Matsler also lives in Alabama. NIH Begins Study of Oil Spill's Impact on Residents. Today, the U.S. government launched what's being billed as the largest study ever conducted of how an oil spill affects human health. The Gulf Long-Term Follow-Up Study will survey Gulf of Mexico residents who helped with the cleanup of last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill and follow them for at least 5 years. The $19 million study by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) will contact people known to have been involved in the gulf cleanup efforts and ask them to undergo physical examinations and fill out questionnaires about their health.
This direct approach will be more encompassing than simply relying on extant medical records, principal investigator Dale Sandler, head of the epidemiology branch at NIEHS, explained at a teleconference today. "People might not be complaining, they might just feel lousy and not report it," she says. The study team plans to contact 100,000 people with the goal of enrolling 55,000 in the study. Top ex-oilfield executive says Gulf op a depopulation event. 100,000 now sick. - National Human Rights. Source: "In Discussion" hosted by David Gibbons, Co-producer, Patrick J. O'Brien Ex-oilfield executive of 25 years, now human rights defender Ian Crane stated Friday during Voice America “In Discussion” radio program that the Gulf of Mexico operation was a planned population reduction event. During the program, key Gulf advocates disclosed that over 100,000 Gulf people are already plague victims, hundreds of millions more will be impacted, and BP has paid enormous sums of money to keep Gulf activists from having a voice nationally.
“BP has made sure that activists are not campaigning on a national level. They are keeping them local so the corporate world is not threatened,” Crane told show host, David Gibbons. Hard-hitting interview comments The Gulf operation exhibits each hallmark of a contrived event and "will have long-lasting and far-reaching impact on lives of up to hundreds of millions of people" according to Crane. “It's getting worse day by day.” There is poor health care. Toxic Tide - Discovering the Health Effects of the Deepwater Disaster, Part 2. Air Date: Week of February 18, 2011 stream/download this segment as an MP3 file Fishermen turned their boats into an oil spill armada. Now many worry about what they were exposed to on the water. (Photo: Marco Kaltofen) Sick residents have questions and scientists are looking for answers: might the BP spill be behind a wave of illness?
We hear how cleanup workers and coastal communities might have been exposed in part two of Jeff Young’s report Toxic Tide - Discovering the Health Effects of the Deepwater Disaster. Transcript GELLERMAN: It’s Living on Earth, I’m Bruce Gellerman. Some who say they have symptoms are workers who cleaned the crude from the sea and beaches. YOUNG: We’ll call him “John” - he does not want to use his real name. “JOHN”: You could smell the hydrocarbons in the air and just smell that oil and you knew it was coming in. YOUNG: John says he was not offered use of a respirator or other protective gear. KALTOFEN: What I’ve got in this little tube is… R. Links.