Via The Tyee, a Hook item I posted a few minutes ago: 'BP crud' afflicts Gulf Coast residents. It's not an infectious disease, but given a choice between it and dengue, I'd go for dengue every time. Excerpt:
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may have caused serious health consequences for coastal residents, according to a recent report. If the cases are confirmed, a spill on the B.C. coast could be a major health hazard as well as an environmental disaster.
In Covering Health, a blog for medical journalists, Andrew Van Dam posts on the work of Glynn Wilson, who interviewed Gulf Coast residents this summer. Wilson had published a long report on September 7 in The Locust Fork News-Journal, an Alabama online journal.
The report asserted: "Now, along the entire coast of the Gulf of Mexico, there is the BP Crud, afflicting workers and the general population from Louisiana to Florida."
Note to Mike Coston: Don't get too close to the surf on your working holiday!
