"A year after the BP disaster, some Southerners say they're coming down with mysterious and frightening illnesses":
http://www.csindy.com/colorado/gulf-coast-syndrome/Content?oid=2171419
Especially the ones that worked in the cleanup. Bad stuff.
i would expect some kind of chronic illness for those people.
especially with that stuff they were adding, the stuff that was supposed to make the oil sink. i heard that was a lot more toxic than the oil and that they gov told the army engineers to stop using it but they didn't.