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BP Oil Spill: Dolphins Plagued By Death, Disease Years After Rig Explosion http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1392229680
Missing teeth. Lung disease. Extreme hormone levels.
Four years after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, gushing some 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the region is rife with death and disease, according to a major U.S. study.
The peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, is the first of its kind since the devastating spill.
"I've never seen such a high prevalence of very sick animals," lead author Lori Schwacke of the Medical University of South Carolina noted....
Researchers captured 32 dolphins from the bay, a 24-km stretch near southeastern Louisiana, and deemed half of them to be seriously ill or dying.
Among the cases? Liver disease, crippling pneumonia and even a pregnant female carrying a dead fetus.
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