Toxic Tide – Discovering the Health Effects of the Deepwater Disaster, Part 2

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Sick residents have questions and scientists are looking for answers: might the BP spill be behind a wave of illness? We hear how cleanup workers and coastal communities might have been exposed in part two of Jeff Young’s report Toxic Tide – Discovering the Health Effects of the Deepwater Disaster.

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