TV has been saying that people who get any cut or
blister are getting infected and don't heal and the
sore grows. There might be a thousand people on
the verge of amputation right now, well before
the Love Canal and Erin Brockovitch nightmare.
But most of the city could be re-inhabited. I th
Cover-up: toxic waters 'will make New Orleans unsafe for a decade'
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Correspondent
Published: 11 September 2005
Toxic chemicals in the New Orleans flood waters will make the city unsafe for full human habitation for a decade, a US government official has told