Gulf Oil Disaster: Death By Inhalation

UPDATE ON THE GULF OIL SPILL CATASTROPHE by Dr. James Howenstine, MD.

"Can the Enormous Health Problems in the Gulf States be Permanently Hidden?

...My initial reaction was that the U.S. administration would be forced to evacuate the residents of the Gulf states to areas more than 200 miles from the coast in order to preserve life. A tentative date for the FEMA evacuation was put forth as late August. My current thinking is that evacuation may be able to be avoided. Failure to evacuate guarantees that massive numbers of Gulf citizens will die from oil, hexane and methane exposure. Exposure to Aromatic Polycyclic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) from oil are capable of damaging every organ in the human body.

"...If the number of persons dying in Gulf States from illnesses arising from exposure to oil keeps steadily rising there is no reason to think this rising death rate would force FEMA to do anything. The steady increase in deaths will not get publicity, some people will voluntarily move away to a healthier state and the Gulf States will steadily have a lower number of citizens."

See more on the Gulf Oil Disaster here.