Cruising on a Cessna 172 seaplane in the Caribbean is actually a very tiring job. Although people feel exhausted when riding in a large commercial jet plane for too long, the fatigue of riding in a small seat is completely different from the fatigue of riding in a large passenger plane - this fatigue is caused by bumps, noise, long cruises and preparing "air meals" by themselves.

As a member of the Fitzgerald family, Bruen's tongue is as picky as his ancestors. But most of his life has been spent in studying for the past few decades. Bruen, who knows how to cook and is too lazy to cook, can only eat bread with double-sized peanut butter and jam every time he takes off, he has to become the poorest student in the school. Such an experience really makes him unable to feel energetic about work.

Each flight is a long journey. After the plane takes off from Orlando's land in the morning, the Cessna 172 has to fly south through the huge Lake Okeechobee, then turn east and fly towards the Bahamas. After completing the tour around the Greater Abaco Island in the morning, he needs to fly to the Berry Islands again. The plane will replenish fuel here. This place becomes the place where Bruen gnaws bread every day.

"You look very unintended." There is a Red Caribbean office on the Berry Islands. The people who work here are basically local residents of the Berry Islands. After getting familiar with Bruen, the island clerk began to come over to chat while he was having a meal - he said he was a clerk, but in fact he was just a handyman girl hired by the office. "Is it because of something up?"

"This is what bothered me the most now." Bruen raised the bread in his hand at the girl, "I have to eat this kind of thing to live every day, this torture is terrible."

"You can't afford to buy food?" The girl was a little shocked. "I thought American doctors should be very rich."

There is actually money. Bruen smiled bitterly, "It's not difficult for me to buy some food, but... I can't make it."

"Then... do you want to make a deal?" The girl's eyes lit up, and then leaned towards Bruen, "Look, it's very expensive to buy food in Berry..."

Bruen's face changed. He was planning to use the excuse that he had already had a favorite person to reject the girl in front of him trying to exchange her body for food. Then he heard the second half of the content, "Next time you can buy more food, I can help you do it." She licked her lips and said openly, "But as processing fee, I'll give me a portion of the food you bought."

"That's fine." Hiring a cook with food is simply too cost-effective. The food on the Berry Islands is very famous, and even Texans have heard of the unique flavor here. "You have to buy seafood or something here? I can leave you some money..."

"It's better not." The Latino mixed-race girl quickly stopped Bruen's thoughts. She looked around and then lowered her voice. "In recent years, there have been more and more fishermen with leukemia on the island. I guess there may be problems with the fish in the sea, so I don't dare to eat those things now."

"Leukemia?" Although he was an emergency doctor, Bruen was still very sensitive to this problem. He immediately asked, "How many people have become ill?"

"I don't know." But if you ask the local disease control department, you may not get the correct result, let alone a local employee in the Red Caribbean Sea? The girl with wheat-colored skin shook her head and said, "Four people I know have leukemia. Two are dead, and two are participating in human trials at a pharmaceutical company."

Bruen blinked, asking with some difficulty in accepting reality, "Pharmaceutical company? Human trials?"

"The American company seems to be studying drugs for treating leukemia." The girl's face was a little sad and disappointed. "I can get a subsidy of $800 when I participated in an experiment. This money was not enough to pay for their future treatment fees... I think they probably knew they would die, so they tried every means to leave some money for their family."

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The news kept Bruen from sleeping for a whole week.

Drug experiments conducted in the United States generally provide compensation for volunteers including transportation, nursing and health compensation. A three-week clinical drug trial requires an average compensation of about 3,000 US dollars.

If it is a drug for treating tumors or a drug for treating leukemia, patients receiving treatment can also receive one or two courses of medicines given for free by the drug company on the basis of compensation. In a wider clinical trial, patients can even receive years of free treatment to evaluate the impact of the drug on their condition.

Most of the new leukemia and tumor treatment drugs that are currently in clinical trials belong to the immune category, and many of these drugs have shown very good prospects. For residents of the poor Berry Islands, participating in the trial is indeed their only hope for survival.

But according to the news obtained by Bruen... what happened to the residents of the Berry Islands is likely not that simple.

Since the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, the incidence of leukemia in the Berry Islands has shown a significant upward trend. Although sufficient data are still lacking, based on diagnosis and treatment data from the Red Caribbean, the incidence of leukemia in the local area is nearly twice as high as in the late 1990s.

There are not many residents in the Berry Islands, twice as high as that, from four people to seven people onset. This data is not of special significance from a scientific point of view. But what attracted Bruen's attention was a report on marine biological pollutants in the Caribbean by an NGO organization that had little attention and no influence.

Since the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, the benzene content in marine organisms near the Bahamas has risen by 170%.

As a chemical substance belonging to the first type of carcinogen, benzene and toluene are widely present in crude oil. A large amount of crude oil starts from the Gulf of Mexico, along the Florida Strait and Yucatan Strait, along the Florida Strait, and then passes through the Bahamas and along the Atlantic Ocean toward the West Coast of Europe.

Judging from the distribution of warm currents, the Bahamas will be impacted by currents from two straits at the same time. A large amount of pollutants containing benzene and toluene are enriched in marine organisms around the Bahamas. They are then caught by local fishermen and eaten. Finally, they are accumulated in the human body.

This is an environmental pollution disaster.
Chapter completed!