Two year old in Barataria Bay area is diagnosed with neuroblastoma

[Emily]

http://www.wwltv.com/weather/hurricane-isaac/Lafitte-family-has-to-cope-with-childs-cancer-in-addition-to-flood-168837206.html

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Hurricane Isaac
Lafitte family has to cope with child's cancer in addition to flood
wwltv.com
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 5:42 PM
Updated Friday, Sep 7 at 2:33 PM
Meg Farris / Eyewitness News
[snip]
The very day the Isaac flood waters filled their home in Lafitte, the Adam family got devastating news. It made storm losses almost seem insignificant.

"You just wonder why it happens. Wish you could just take it away. There's nothing you can do about it," said Gloria Adam, 24, who is Faith's Mother.

Gloria and Jeremy Adam only in their mid 20s, now face daily treatments needed to save their 2-year-old Faith, who has a type of nervous system cancer, while rebuilding their home and setting up a new one in a rental.

"It's like a nightmare. You can't wake up from, you know. Two weeks ago, two and a half weeks ago, my life was fine. I still have a beautiful family and it's just like somebody grab you by your feet and hang by your head, hang you upside down and you can't get up. You can't wake up," said Jeremy Adam, 26, Faith's Father.

Faith's neuroblastoma tumor is larger than a grapefruit in her abdomen...

Officially the cause of neuroblastoma in children is unknown, (though some exposures including to chemicals are suspected to increase risk), and unfortunately I don't think the government was planning on including children living along the affected Gulf coast areas in their health study. Pediatric neuroblastoma cases are increasing in non-urban settings for some reason.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19875967

J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2009 Dec;31(12):942-6.
Increasing incidence of neuroblastoma and potentially higher associated mortality of children from nonmetropolitan areas: analysis of the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results database.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2010/07/bp-oil-spill-lafitte-bayou-fears-what-incoming-oil-could-do-to-community/

Jul 13, 2010 2:53pm
BP Oil Spill: Lafitte Bayou Fears What Incoming Oil Could Do to CommunityIn the tiny country town of Lafitte, La., residents use their water like highways. Their backyards back up to a crisp, marshy bayou. They park their boats and walk right up to their kitchens. Children wade in the clear, clean water while their fathers put on hazmat suits and cart boom to the devastated gulf only a few miles away. For now, Lafitte?s bayou is safe. ?My biggest fears is that oil gets on this water and they shut us down completely,? said Richard Smith, a lifelong fisherman. Unless the government declares his home a hazard, he intends to stay in Lafitte. ?I?ve been here all my life. It?s my way of living. That?s not blood? ? Smith points to his arm ? ?that?s bayou water.? Smith cracks a few crab legs caught that morning for everyone at his home to sample. The taste so fresh and the meat so plump, Smith says he eats it proudly every day. The taste, he fears, is an endangered species. His supply has never been so low. Along Lafitte?s bayou, tall green grass and thick marshlands stretch far into the horizon. The smell of the bayou is distinct ? sweet and fresh. No one crosses each other without friendly waves and greetings. The families of Lafitte smile through pain. They say it feels like there has been a death in the family. They?re grieving a tremendous loss ? their home...

"New Oil Leak Near Lafitte, Louisiana. "Dusting Marshes"
This spill involves a well in a portion of Barataria Bay known as Mud Lake, near Bayou St. Dennis about 10 miles south of Lafitte, Louisiana."
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/07/27/new-leak-found-on-gulf-coast/
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http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/04/201241682318260912.html

Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists
Eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution believed to be the likely cause.
Dahr Jamail Last Modified: 20 Apr 2012 15:57

Eyeless shrimp

Tracy Kuhns and her husband Mike Roberts, commercial fishers from Barataria, Louisiana, are finding eyeless shrimp.

"At the height of the last white shrimp season, in September, one of our friends caught 400 pounds of these," Kuhns told Al Jazeera while showing a sample of the eyeless shrimp.

According to Kuhns, at least 50 per cent of the shrimp caught in that period in Barataria Bay, a popular shrimping area that was heavily impacted by BP's oil and dispersants, were eyeless. Kuhns added: "Disturbingly, not only do the shrimp lack eyes, they even lack eye sockets."..