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Chapter 898 Environmental Disaster
Taking a Cessna 172 seaplane in the Caribbean to conduct medical tours is actually a very tiring job.While flying a jumbo commercial jetliner can be exhausting from spending too much time in cramped seats.But the exhaustion of flying a small plane is quite different from the exhaustion of a large passenger plane - the exhaustion is caused by a combination of bumps, noise, long cruises and preparing your own "airline meal".

As a member of the Fitzgerald family, Bruin was as fastidious with his tongue as his ancestors.But in the past few decades of his life, most of his time has been spent on studying.Brun, who can't cook by himself and is too lazy to cook, can only eat bread with peanut butter and jelly every time he gets on the plane.To take off, you have to be the poorest student in the school.This kind of encounter really made him lose his energy for work.

Every flight is a long journey.After taking off from land in Orlando in the morning, the Cessna 172 had to fly south over the mighty Lake Okeechobee before turning due east toward the Bahamas.After finishing his medical tour around Great Abaco Island in the morning, he needs to fly again to the Berry Islands.The aircraft will be refueled here.And here became the place where Brunn gnawed bread every day.

"You look very lethargic." There's a Red Caribbean office on the Berry Islands.Most of the people who work here are local residents of the Berry Islands.After getting acquainted with Bruen, the clerks on the island began to chat with him when he was eating—it was said to be a clerk, but in fact it was just a handyman girl hired by the office here. "Is it because of something bothering you?"

"This is what bothers me the most now." Bruen waved the bread in his hand towards the girl. "I have to eat this kind of food every day. This kind of torture is terrible."

"You can't afford food?" The girl was a little shocked, "I thought doctors in America should be very rich."

Money actually exists.Bruen smiled wryly, "It's not difficult for me to buy some food, but... I can't do it."

"Then...do you want to make a deal?" The girl's eyes lit up, and she leaned towards Brunn, "Look, it's very expensive to buy food in Berry..."

Bruen's expression changed. He was about to use the excuse that he already had someone he liked to reject the girl in front of him trying to exchange his body for food, and then he heard the second half of the content, "Next time you can Buy some more food and bring it here, and I can help you." She licked her lips, and then said generously, "But as a processing fee, I will get a share of the food you bought."

"That's no problem." Using food to hire a cook is not a good deal.The delicacies on the Berry Islands are very famous, even the Texans have heard of the unique flavor here, "Seafood or something, you have to buy it here? I can leave some money for you..."

"It's best not to." The little Latino girl quickly stopped Bruen's thoughts.She looked around, then lowered her voice, "In recent years, more and more fishermen on the island have suffered from leukemia. I guess there may be something wrong with the fish in the sea, so I don't dare to eat those things now."

"Leukemia?" Although he is an emergency doctor, Bruen is still very sensitive to this kind of problem. He immediately asked, "How many people have the disease?"

"I don't know." But even asking the local disease control department for this kind of question may not be able to get the correct answer, let alone a local employee of Red Caribbean?The girl with wheat-colored skin shook her head and said, "Four of the people I know have leukemia. Two have died, and two are participating in human trials by a pharmaceutical company."

Bruen blinked, and asked with difficulty accepting the reality, "Pharmaceutical company? Human trials?"

"A company in the United States seems to be researching drugs to treat leukemia." The girl's face was a little sad and lost, "Participating in an experiment, you can get a subsidy of 800 US dollars. This money is not enough to pay for their future treatment. Fei...I think they probably knew that they would die, so they tried to leave some money for their family."

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The news kept Brunn awake for a week.

For drug experiments conducted in the United States, the compensation generally given to volunteers includes three items: transportation, nursing care and health compensation.For a three-week clinical drug trial, the average amount of compensation that needs to be paid to volunteers is about [-] US dollars.

If it is a drug to treat tumors, or a drug to treat leukemia.Then, on the basis of receiving compensation, the patients receiving treatment can also receive one or two courses of drugs for free from the drug company.And in more widespread clinical trials, patients can even get years of free treatment to assess the drug's impact on their condition.

Most of the new drugs for leukemia and tumor treatment that are currently in clinical trials belong to the immune category, and many of these drugs have shown very good prospects.For the poor residents of the Berry Islands, participating in the experiment is indeed their only hope of survival.

But according to the information Brunn has obtained... what happened to the residents of the Berry Islands may not be that simple.

Since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the incidence of leukemia in the Berry Islands has shown a clear upward trend.Although there is still a lack of sufficient data, it is only estimated based on the diagnosis and treatment data of the Red Caribbean Sea that the local leukemia incidence rate is nearly twice as high as that in the late 90s.

There are not many residents in the Berry Islands, and the increase has tripled, that is, from four cases to seven cases.This data has no special significance from a scientific point of view.But what caught Brunn's attention was a report on marine biological pollutants in the Caribbean Sea released by an NGO organization with little attention and influence.

Benzene levels in marine life near the Bahamas have risen by 170 percent since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

As a chemical substance belonging to the first group of carcinogens, benzene and toluene are widely present in crude oil.A large amount of crude oil starts from the Gulf of Mexico, passes through Cuba along the Strait of Florida and the Strait of Yucatan, and then passes through the Bahamas, along the Atlantic Ocean toward Heading to the west coast of Europe.

From the perspective of warm current distribution, the Bahamas will be impacted by currents from two straits at the same time.Large quantities of pollutants including benzene and toluene are enriched in marine life around the Bahamas.It is then caught and eaten by local fishermen.Finally complete the accumulation in the human body.

This is an environmental pollution disaster.

　Today's goal is also to explode to 8000!

　　
　
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