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Elevated levels of dangerous chemicals found in the crude oil from the Deep Water Horizon is now being found in our blood. Wilma Subra has been testing water and soil samples in Acadiana four for decades and what she sees in this latest study concerns her. A blood study that was conducted on four males ages 3 to 43 and one female age 38 in December of last year. Subra says the results of those tests have revealed elevated levels of six toxic and potentially life threatening chemicals associated with crude oil, most notably Ethylbenzene which has been linked to kidney damage and cancer.
Originally posted by manta78
reply to post by Human_Alien
Thanks for posting this. I am thinking that testing should
be conducted immediately on a much wider scale involving many more people, to
see if similiar results are seen.
S & F
Originally posted by Human_Alien
reply to post by Advantage
Has there been an iota of compensation what so ever from either BP or the government? If not, ever think of a class-action?
Originally posted by TheBirdisDone
Wow, real news. I am impressed with this video. I am one hour in from the Gulf.
I was actually there last weekend, and I wondered if I would see anything on the sand.
I didn't, but I did notice they were selling fish, no thank you.
Alien aren't you down around the state on the Atlantic side?
You think our whole state is in trouble?
Originally posted by JustCurious1
This is where the original story came from
News Story Chemicals..
Elevated levels of dangerous chemicals found in the crude oil from the Deep Water Horizon is now being found in our blood. Wilma Subra has been testing water and soil samples in Acadiana four for decades and what she sees in this latest study concerns her. A blood study that was conducted on four males ages 3 to 43 and one female age 38 in December of last year. Subra says the results of those tests have revealed elevated levels of six toxic and potentially life threatening chemicals associated with crude oil, most notably Ethylbenzene which has been linked to kidney damage and cancer.
I would like them to test many many more people, while having one person with these POTENTIALLY life threatening chemicals is bad enough. We need to know how widespread it is.
In addition to more tests on people, I'd hope test's are/will be carried out on as many different sources of seafood as possible.
edit on 28-1-2011 by JustCurious1 because: (no reason given)
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Biology Professor Paul Klerks said LEAN's study could be cause for concern. Maybe. "This is potentially cause for concern," Klerks said, "but it's a very small sample size of five, so it's really hard to tell with just a small sample what it really means as whole." In an e-mail sent to KLFY, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries refutes the study. The e-mail states all contaminated areas were isolated from use until testing could be done to deem them safe, and that testing of these areas will continue over the next few years. Klerks says the high levels found of ethyl benzene in humans and petroleum hydrocarbon in seafood needs to be investigated further. "They do point out potential issues, but we need to do a lot more research for both of those areas. At this point a lot more sampling [is needed] to get a better idea of really how important these issues are that are brought up in this study."