Crude Oil Spills and Human Health

A new page of links to information on "Crude Oil Spills and Human Health" is now available at http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/oilspills.html .

The page has links to information on how the US responds to oil spills, state agencies in the Gulf region that respond to spills, occupational hazards for professionals and volunteers assisting with clean-up, seafood safety and more. The links under "Featured Sites" focus on the latest updates about the recent spill and subsequent controlled burning of crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit oil platform. The page will continue to expand as needed.

If you want to stay informed on disaster health information and resources, please consider joining the DISASTR-OUTREACH-LIB listserv. About 400 librarians and other informational professionals use this listserv to share ideas and information about disaster health resources, including publications from grey literature sources, webinars, conferences, and training. List members may also post questions, news, announcements, job openings and other content of interest to those involved in disaster information outreach. You can sign up at http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/dimrclistserv.html . The listserv is provided by the National Library of Medicine's Disaster Information Management Research Center. (http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov) For more information, please send me an email at nortone@nlm.nih.gov .

thanks to Elizabeth Norton for this post