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Commissioner
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Commissioner
Larson
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CURREhT MEDICAL STATUS OF THE MARS1~LESE
EXPOSED TO FALLOUT FROM
T1lE MWRCH 1, 1954, TEST Oli BIKINI BY DR. ROBERT A. CONARD, ~DICAL
DEPARTMENT, BROOK1tAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY
Dr. Conard conducted his annual
non-exposed Marshallese
between
visited Rongelap, Utirik, Ebeye
medical
survey of the exposed and
February
20 and March 2@, 1971.
He
and Majuro Islands
(Atolls).
He reports that no new thyroid lesions were found in the exposed
Rongelap people.
One 35-year-old
woman in the low exposure
(14 rads)
group on