US doctors have found that behavioral and mental repercussions from oil giant BP's April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may be worse than its adverse health effects.
A review published Wednesday by the online edition of the prominent New England Journal of Medicine underlines the “lingering uncertainty” on the actual impact of last year's historic oil spill, blaming the federal government for delaying the study of the spill's health effects and thus hindering efforts to accurately understand them , the New York Times reported Wednesday.
However, the report states that residents and offshore cleanup workers are not threatened by grave lasting effects of the oil leak.
“There have been few studies of longer term health consequences” in the population of workers who were exposed to the disaster at its outset, said the report.
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