Participants Needed For Oil Spill Cleanup Research
November 9, 2011
A group of researchers from the National Institute of Environment Health Sciences are looking for cleanup workers from last year’s Gulf oil spill willing to participate in a study of the long-term health effects of exposure to the oil and it’s dispersants. The News Star reported yesterday, 5,000 workers form across Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi have been signed up to take part, but tracking down many of the workers as proven difficult.
The organization will be in Terrebonne Parish today in an effort to recruit the additional 45,000 participants needed to begin the study. From that group, researchers say they will select 20,000 individual cases to follow over the next five years.
The study hopes to track illnesses, lifestyles, and seafood consumption throughout that time period to see if the conditions they find are linked to exposure to toxic chemicals from the cleanup.
Many of the workers and community members who were affected by the spill have had concerns over the ramifications of exposure to the oil. Many say they have suffered from respiratory issues such as infections and trouble breathing to chronic asthma.
Those interested in participating can go to a public forum meeting being held at:
Ward 7 Citizens Club
5006 LA 56
Chauvin, Louisiana 70344
Phone: 1-855-NIH-GULF
The Louisiana Maritime Accident Lawyers with Dudley Debosier want the people of the Louisiana coast to know and find out more about the health risks they were exposed to and urge you to contact the group if you participated in any sort of oil cleanup
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