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Oil Spill Victim: Things just started coming out of my skin — It has gotten a lot worse (VIDEO)

March 30th, 2011 at 08:48 AM

When they started burning the dispersants out there, my lungs caught on fire. ... Read more >>

Woman reports troubling symptoms after swimming in Gulf — Burning lesions all over body & face, "I keep finding more and more of them"

March 3rd, 2011 at 08:44 AM

Susan from Panama City Beach, Florida lives only a few blocks from the Gulf of ... Read more >>

Gulf researchers with unusual rash — “I have worked in oily mud for years and it had never made my skin break out. But, this material did. I do not know why”

February 25th, 2011 at 10:59 AM

"When sampling the oily sediments, there were several of us who got red rashes on our skin" ... Read more >>

NSFW: Sickened cleanup worker shows “oil boils” all over body — “I don’t know where to go from here, this is my last shot” (VIDEO)

January 26th, 2011 at 07:26 AM

Sick P2S worker, jmrexford, January 13, 2011:

"I have to get my word out there somehow."

To ... Read more >>

Cleanup worker suffering from large boils, multiple skin infections (DISTURBING PHOTOS)

January 11th, 2011 at 10:55 AM

Jennifer Rexford worked on beach cleanup in the Florida panhandle for BP contractor P2S until August 2010. ... Read more >>

Alabama’s Marine Resources director dies after staph infection — Played important part in state’s oil disaster response

January 10th, 2011 at 08:57 AM

Longtime Alabama Marine Resources director dies, Press Register, December 30, 2010:

Vernon "Vern" Minton, who directed ... Read more >>

No menstrual period for 4 months when doused with Gulf water -- "Like being covered in stinging jellyfish"

December 1st, 2010 at 03:53 PM

"Eye irritations, heart pains, heart palpitations, involuntary muscles jumping all over my body, and continuous headaches day and night." ... Read more >>

More shrimpers report "body rashes, diarrhea and other ailments"

November 24th, 2010 at 11:04 AM

Speakers described "children and adults with skin infections, respiratory illnesses and chronic headaches." ... Read more >>

Still, no one is doing anything about health issues -- Corexit neurotoxins "eat up the brain" and "it takes out your liver, kidneys and lungs"

November 21st, 2010 at 09:32 AM

"This is a big, big issue. It's not something to play around with." -Clint Guidry, LA Seafood Assoc. board of directors ... Read more >>

Bunch of buddies of mine breaking out with "staph" -- "It's something out of the water" say doctors (VIDEO)

November 18th, 2010 at 10:51 AM

Excerpt from "Gulf Shrimping decimated" by CleanTheGulf, November 16, 2010:

Full video by CleanTheGulf, November ... Read more >>

Former oil field worker: “Could smell the Benzene coming up” into Mobile Bay — “Unbelievable headaches” and “a new rash… on my chest”

November 16th, 2010 at 04:55 PM

"And this is after an older rash I've had that turned into blisters." ... Read more >>

"Bleeding from the ears" and now "bruising rash all around my stomach" -- "Looks like bleeding under the skin"

November 16th, 2010 at 03:31 PM

"Sharp stabbing pain is all over my abdomen where this discolouration is, it's in my arm pits and around my breasts..." ... Read more >>

“Could we all be at risk?” asks local Florida news station — Medical doctor has patients testing in 95th percentile for oil spill-associated chemicals (VIDEOS)

November 9th, 2010 at 08:14 PM

Doctor: "I'm more concerned about the long term health effects. Nobody talks about it, nobody's even thinking of that 5,10,15, 20 years from now that we're going to see--cancer" ... Read more >>

BP worker with “brown spots all over his arms” — “Everybody’s getting that out there” (VIDEO)

November 3rd, 2010 at 04:07 PM

Joannie Hughes, Kindra Arnesen and Vicky Perrin, Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana Radio, November 2, ... Read more >>

"Recurring sores" after seeing plane dump liquid -- Alabama physician links condition to "high levels of volatile solvents in his blood" (PHOTO)

November 3rd, 2010 at 01:44 PM

Yerkes said he started getting these recurring sores near his elbows, where he rests his arms on the balcony railing while chatting on the phone, shortly after witnessing a plane dumping liquid into the Gulf... ... Read more >>

"They are dying" says registered nurse working in Florida -- I'm seeing "people who have been chemically poisoned"

October 27th, 2010 at 03:45 PM

Trisha Springstead, is a registered nurse of 36 years who lives and works in Brooksville, Florida ... Read more >>

“It’s Raining Bacteria”: Rain can spread flesh-eating microbes via “bio-aerosols” — “Also led to skin allergies and rashes”

October 26th, 2010 at 09:58 AM

Watch out, it’s raining bacteria, Daily News & Analysis (Mumbai, India), October 26, 2010:

[A]ccording to ... Read more >>

46% of BP Oil Spill wildlife cleanup workers reported RASHES, itchy skin, or red skin -- 35% with headaches

October 25th, 2010 at 12:21 PM

Health symptom survey—reported injuries and symptoms by group

More Injuries Reported for BP Oil Spill Wildlife Cleanup Workers, Environmental Protection Online, October 25, ... Read more >>

Kindra Arnesen shows her 'rash' -- "I think we've been poisoned to be perfectly honest" (VIDEO)

October 6th, 2010 at 09:16 AM

Kindra Arnesen Suffering Health Problems From Life In Southern Louisiana, ProjectGulfImpact, October 5, 2010:

At 1:00 ... Read more >>

CHSL Update: Kindra still struggling with staph, Vicki being treated for respiratory problems, Joannie "only 7% vision now" in left eye -- Neurologist unsure if it will return

October 2nd, 2010 at 12:40 PM

Update from Joannie Hughes, New Orleans Ladder (Editilla Notellas), October 2, 2010:

... I am home ... Read more >>

BP workers: We were sprayed with dispersant at night by plane with no lights... now skin lesions, fluid in lungs -- "We just want medical help" (VIDEO)

October 1st, 2010 at 05:22 PM

Interview with anonymous BP cleanup worker, GRC Radio (South Carolina), September 30, 2010:

Transcript Summary

Airplanes spraying ... Read more >>

Husband and wife "sprayed" while sleeping on boat... woke up SOAKING WET; Sores, BP crud -- Under investigation by Feds (VIDEO)

October 1st, 2010 at 07:49 AM

Interview with Karen Hopkins (Manager of Dean Blanchard's Seafood, Grand Isle, LA's largest seafood processor), ... Read more >>

Aid groups in Gulf experiencing a troubling number of health problems (COMPILATION VIDEO)

September 30th, 2010 at 08:53 AM

Compiled from these videos uploaded Wednesday, September 29, 2010:

All four members of Project Gulf Impact ... Read more >>

CHSL Radio program cancelled: Kindra Arnesen "very ill with staph"; Joannie Hughes in hospital, doctor "worried about neurotoxins" (VIDEO)

September 29th, 2010 at 08:01 PM

Joannie Hughes, Kindra Arnesen and Vicky Perrin of Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana Radio, September ... Read more >>

More reports of flesh-eating bacteria in the Gulf -- 12 y/o dies after only his feet touched the water (VIDEO)

September 28th, 2010 at 02:16 PM

The WDSU report notes the risk of infection by the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus increases ... Read more >>

Feds funding study of oil spill's effect on FLESH-EATING bacteria -- Blamed for multiple recent Gulf-area deaths after water/seafood contact (VIDEOS)

September 28th, 2010 at 11:04 AM

Will Bacterial Plague Follow Crude Oil Spill Along Gulf Coast?, New York Times (Greenwire), June ... Read more >>

Like an "Acid Cloud": Entire family sickened -- 10 y/o son's nose "gushing blood everywhere", daughter "could not breath"... NUMBNESS (VIDEO)

September 27th, 2010 at 03:56 PM

Interview with Lorrie Williams of Ocean Springs MS, GRC Radio (South Carolina), September 24, 2010:

Transcript ... Read more >>

“Super bug”: Oil pollution expert says genes of microbes have been modified to “EAT oil better” — Rashes may be caused by MRSA-like infection (VIDEO)

September 27th, 2010 at 10:37 AM

Interview with toxicologist Dr. Riki Ott, Ring of Fire Radio (Mike Papanatonio, Esq.), September 25, ... Read more >>

Toxicologist says Gulf residents suffering from UNKNOWN, persistent rashes -- RESISTANT to multiple rounds of antibiotics (VIDEO)

September 26th, 2010 at 12:55 PM

Toxicologist Dr. Riki Ott Interview, Ring of Fire Radio (Mike Papanatonio, Esq.), September 25, 2010: