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SUBJECT:
SUMMARY AND REPORT ENTITLED ‘MEDICAL SURVEY OF RONGELAP
PEOPLE FIVE AND SID YEARS AFTER EXPOSURE TO FALLOUT"
Forwerdecé os a matter of interest are copies of e@ summary and
report entitled "Medicel Survey of Rongelan People Five and Six
Years efter Exposure tc Fallout." The report was prepared at
the Brockhaven National Laboratory based on data obtained by
Dr. Robert Conard and associates.
The summary was prepared by
Dr. William E. Lotz of this Division.
The factual meke-up of
this meterical is consicered non-controversiel.
in brief, the Marshallese are not showing clinical signs and
symptoms or abnormslities clearly citributable te their 1954
expgsure, They coptinue to show, hovever, Low body burdens of
Srvv, Cs¢e! and gn°?, 211 of which we believe to originete
from
the contaminetion in their current food supplies: the Zn ? is
believed to come from the seafood ceusht locilly.
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