Breaking news, Current issues and I'm going deer hunting Cholera penetrates displacement camp www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdOKn5TOcjU&feature=email For the first time, there is a confirmed case of cholera in one of the camps housing earthquake survivors around Haiti's capital. With thousands of people living packed together in unhygienic conditions, the development is one officials had been fearing ever since the epidemic began three weeks ago. The disease has already killed 643 people, with thousands more treated. Al Jazeera's Cath Turner reports from Port-au-Prince. hefeltbad's channel www.youtube.com/user/hefeltbad Oil spill's toxic trade-off Dispersed oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster could be more dangerous to wildlife than reports suggest. Chemicals used to reduce oil slicks during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may have rendered the oil more toxic than official reports suggest, according to a Canadian toxicologist. www.nature.com/news/2010/101110/full/news.2010.597.html Exclusive: Multiple independent lab tests confirm oil in Gulf shrimp Experts operating states apart confirm toxic content in not just shrimp, but crab and fish too The federal government is going out of its way to assure the public that seafood pulled from recently reopened Gulf of Mexico waters is safe to consume, in spite of the largest accidental release of crude oil in America's history. However, testing methodologies used by the government to deem areas of water safe for commercial fishing are woefully inadequate and permit high levels of toxic compounds to slip into the human food chain, according to a series of scientific and medical professionals interviewed by Raw Story. www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/activist-lab-tests-show-dangerously-toxic-substances-present-gulf-shrimp/

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