WLOX-TV - The News for South Mississippi: More Chinese catfish samples test positive for illegal antibiotics

WLOX-TV - The News for South Mississippi: More Chinese catfish samples test positive for illegal antibiotics: "JACKSON, Miss. Seven more Mississippi grocery stores have been ordered to stop selling Chinese catfish after samples of the fish tested positive for illegal antibiotics."

WLOX-TV - The News for South Mississippi: UMC, U. of Michigan, Studying Katrina's Impact in Mississippi

WLOX-TV - The News for South Mississippi: UMC, U. of Michigan, Studying Katrina's Impact in Mississippi: "Researchers from the University of Michigan, the University of Mississippi Medical Center and other institutions this week will start the process of surveying 800 adults who lived in southern Mississippi when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. The goal of the study, which is being funded by the National Institutes of Health, is to help determine the hurricane's impact on individuals and on communities."

Gulf Coast News - Your Mississippi Coast News Source

Gulf Coast News - Your Mississippi Coast News Source: "911 and Katrina, Still With Us: An Obituary that Tells a Story of the Loss of a Gulfport Family's Son - GCN"

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Experts at odds on Katrina effect - The Clarion-Ledger

Experts at odds on Katrina effect - The Clarion-Ledger: "A year after the storm, debate over Katrina's environmental and health impacts still rages.

The Environmental Protection Agency and state environmental agencies say it's safe for storm victims to return home.

'We don't see anything there that possesses a long-term health threat,' said Sam Coleman, a senior EPA official in Dallas.

But environmentalists and some scientists say Katrina's unprecedented 25-foot surge spread dangerous sediment - especially arsenic, lead and benzo(a)pyrene, a carcinogen - from the Mississippi River and other bodies of water and caused chemical and oil spills that have poisoned the region.

Wilma Subra, a chemist with an environmental consulting firm in New Iberia, La., says state and federal health officials are dismissing symptoms - like skin rashes and antibiotic-resistant infections - that she says are caused by toxins like arsenic.

'They're in denial - overwhelmingly,' Subra said. 'Because it would cost too much money to address the problem.'

Subra says Katrina may leave a legacy of miscarriages, birth defects and cancer that won't be revealed right away."