2013-04-22/What BP Doesn't Want You to Know About the 2010 Gulf Spill
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- when: 2013-04-22 (2013-04-22)
- source: Daily Beast
- topics: BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill public safety
- keywords carcinogens cleanup
- link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/04/22/what-bp-doesn-t-want-you-to-know-about-the-2010-gulf-spill.html
- title: What BP Doesn't Want You to Know About the 2010 Gulf Spill
- summary: «Within days, the 32-year-old single mother was coughing up blood and suffering constant headaches. She lost her voice. "My throat felt like I"d swallowed razor blades," she says.»
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Griffin did as she was told: "I tried Pine-Sol, bleach, I even tried Dawn on those floors." As she scrubbed, the mix of cleanser and gunk occasionally splashed onto her arms and face.
Within days, the 32-year-old single mother was coughing up blood and suffering constant headaches. She lost her voice. "My throat felt like I'd swallowed razor blades," she says.
Then things got much worse.