Toxicologist: Oil Spill in Kalamazoo River Far More Toxic Than Admitted

[Bill USA]

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/09/01-5

Nicholas Forte has spent the last year with an array of health issues. Headaches. Migraines. Nausea. Breathing problems so severe they would land him in the hospital.

“We have no idea what it is,” the 22-year-old Battle Creek resident told Michigan Messenger. “Then it escalated to seizures.”

And while the seizures landed him in the hospital — at one point stopping his heart and his breathing — doctors are at a loss to understand why. Tests indicate none of the expected patterns for epilepsy.

Finding out why the formerly healthy young man had suddenly fallen ill drove him and his family to listen to Riki Ott, an environmental toxicologist who has been tracking the health impacts of oil spills on human beings since her home was impacted by the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. Ott was in Battle Creek Wednesday night at the invitation of local activists.
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[Karenina]

1. This MUST BE another "conspiracy theory," n/t

[Nihil]

2. What a surprise ...

... fossil fuel advocates lying about the impact of their products ...

Poor chap - that's a really shitty impact on someone just starting
their 20s ...

:-(