[StBernard] Four years after BP spill, questions on long-term health

[Westley Annis]

Four years after BP spill, questions on long-term health

AP Reporting
A government researcher who hopes to track the long-term health effects of
the 2010 BP oil spill says there are early indications that cleanup workers
were 30 percent more likely to suffer from depression than others living in
areas affected by the spill.
 
Dr. Dale Sandler of the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences
said Friday it's too early to know whether exposure to oil or dispersants
would account for higher levels of depression.
 
Sandler heads up a study in which nearly 33,000 people, cleanup workers or
those who applied for cleanup work, are being surveyed on health matters.
She said about 4,000 are being asked to undergo a new round of physical
exams planned at universities in Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans.