Gulf Oil Spill Workers Report Health Problems

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Health Day

Gulf Oil Spill Workers Report Health Problems
Jun. 3, 2010 07:00 AM
HealthDay.

THURSDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- With the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico now in its sixth week, reports of clean-up workers falling ill are on the rise.

"Within the past week, we've seen a number of workers hospitalized. That's new," said Dr. Gina Solomon, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

More than a dozen workers have been treated at local medical centers for flu-like symptoms ranging from chest pain to dizziness, nausea and headaches, presumably due to exposure to different chemicals emanating from the slick, according to news reports.

The Unified Command in Louisiana -- a coalition of government agencies that includes the U.S. Coast Guard, the Department of the Interior and the National Parks Service -- last week called back to shore 125 boats helping with the clean-up after medical complaints from crew members.

"The reports that we've heard from hospitals and doctors have been inhaled irritant exposure, but they've not gone so far as to say what exactly they think the responsible agent might be," Solomon said. "The workers are widely blaming the dispersants."


Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/2010/06/03/20100603gulf-oil-spill-workers-report-health-problems.html

[saigon68]

1. Can you say Agent Orange--- & or -----Gulf War Syndrome

[awoke_in_2003]

2. weren't there reports...

that workers weren't being supplied with respirators, but were being supplied by donations?

[ck4829]

3. K&R

[glowing]

4. I love how they are blaming "food poisoning" .. like these fishing persons aren't

out there all the time and never were sick before the cleanup... and now the whole lot of them are getting food poisoning on diff. vessels in diff areas of cleanup.. this is a no brainer.