BP dispersants 'causing sickness' (gruesome symptoms)

[ensho]

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2010/10/20101027132136220370.html

Investigation by Al Jazeera online correspondent finds toxic illnesses linked to BP oil dispersants along Gulf coast.


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Gruesome symptoms

"I started to vomit brown, and my pee was brown also," Matsler, a Vietnam veteran who lives in Dauphin Island, said. "I kept that up all day. Then I had a night of sweating and non-stop diarrhea unlike anything I’ve ever experienced."

He was also suffering from skin rashes, nausea, and a sore throat.

At roughly the same time Matsler was exposed, local television station WKRG News 5 took a water sample from his area to test for dispersants. The sample literally exploded when it was mixed with an organic solvent separating the oil from the water.

Naman, the chemist who analyzed the sample, said: "We think that it most likely happened due to the presence of either methanol or methane gas or the presence of the dispersant Corexit."

"I'm still feeling terrible," Matsler told Al Jazeera recently. "I'm about to go to the doctor again right now. I'm short of breathe, the diarrhea has been real bad, I still have discoloration in my urine, and the day before yesterday, I was coughing up white foam with brown spots in it."

As for Matsler's physical reaction to his exposure, Hugh Kaufman, an EPA whistleblower and analyst, has reported this of the effects of the toxic dispersants:

"We have dolphins that are hemorrhaging. People who work near it are hemorrhaging internally. And that’s what dispersants are supposed to do..."

By the middle of last summer, the Alabama Department of Public Health said that 56 people in Mobile and Baldwin counties had sought treatment for what they believed were oil disaster-related illnesses.

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it ain't over

[phantom power]

1. down the memory hole

:(

[no_hypocrisy]

2. No amount of money is going to fix that problem.

[Lorien]

3. I'm sure that's BP's excuse

and for whatever reason they're being allowed to simply walk away from the devastation they have caused. I live about 50 miles from the Gulf and the spraying, and I've had nonstop headaches and respiratory issues for months now. So have many of my friends. Walking away from it just because it's a tough thing to address is NOT the answer! Insisting that they stop spraying Corexit would be a good place to start!

[felix_numinous]

4. So the Gulf of Mexico is poison.

Words are not enough to express what that feels like.

It is not that people have forgotten the Gulf, but witnessing such an enormous crime is traumatic, and we are left in a state of shock if there are no apparent consequences or ways in which the environmental disaster is being healed. The Gulf of Mexico disaster is unresolved, it hangs there, just dying and people suffering badly because powerful groups are allowed to kill indiscriminately.

And that becomes the message, once again huge rich companies abuse the Earth and it's people, and get away with it.

I am sick every time I think about it.

[docvet]

5. criminal!

Wait, didnt Obama swim in those waters? OMG call Dr. House! LOL and people believed that fake photo op. Where is the outrage, Obama and Holder? Not from these two. Their BP bosses got them by the grapes (or lack there of).

[blindpig]

6. These are 'externalized costs"

Don't ya just love capitalism?

[felinetta]

7. The real scary thing is that I think man has created a problem that no one can fix now. I doubt that

there are current solutions. And I think they don't want to
panic people. 

[CoffeeCat]

8. I've heard nothing about this...

...in the MSM.

This is an information blackout.

Where is Anderson Cooper?

There should be an online clearinghouse for people who have health problems that they
believe are related to the oil spill. Maybe, if everyone reported what was happening
to them, we could know the scope of the problem. Then, something might be done. You
can't ignore thousand of people reporting symptoms like that.

We hear these isolated incidents online, and they are horrific. However, there needs
to be ONE place online for all of this information to be gathered.

[whathehell]

9. I read about this and was sickened by it....Corexit is banned in Europe

You might find this naive and maybe it is but I didn't know what else to do and I sent the entire article to Whitehouse.gov.

I received no reply, of course, but if everyone reading this takes the time to simply cut and paste it into a message...He might "get the message".

This is appalling...It may turn into an appalling loss of life.


Please ..Let's not let "them" get away with it.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, ensho.