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Gulf of Mexico Perinatal Dolphin Deaths Likely Result of Oil Exposure

Study finds higher rate of illness in dead fetuses and newborns after Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 12, 2016.   The increased number of stranded stillborn and juvenile dolphins found in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010 to 2013 was likely caused by chronic illnesses in mothers who were exposed to oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, scientists said today.

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Bottlenose dolphins have been dying in record numbers in their mothers' womb or shortly after birth in areas affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The paperoffsite link, published in the journal Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, is part…

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