Why do I need to take medicine for mythyroid? If you had an operation and your thyroid gland was removed, the medicine will ° do the job that your thyroid used to do. So, you must keep taking your medicine. Some people who did not have the operation also take the medicineso that their thyroid glands do notgetsick. It is very important that you take your medicineif you want to stay healthy. back. Leukemiais a disease of the blood. Some cases were caused by radiation in Japan andit is possible that leukemia may have beea‘dueto radiatjon. Time is about past for any more leukemia to be expected frem radiation. Whatwill happen to the people who were not exposed to o tadlaiion but } are now living on Rongelap and Utirik? - 103 - ao —- ee ee PRIVACY ACTMATERIAL REMOVED _ . They,greRongelap peoplat Thitiere hfealthy, too. eA re: ad A . epee ei a ee ee ee — They don’t have to worry because there is practically no chance thaff aniof the people will get sick from radiation since thereis so very little radiation left on the islands. — What kind of radiation caused thyroid sickness and leukemia? Thyroid sickness in the Rongelap people exposed to fallout was caused by damage to the thyroid gland from a “thyroid radiation poison.” It took a long time for the sickness to show. A few unexposed Rongelap people as well as some people in the Marshall Islands andall over the world develop thyroid sickness, butit is not due to radiation. All the ‘thyroid poison” on Rongelap was gone whenthe people moved : NR en ee mn tra 2ite atreid aebiderte i hd eteadie GA wee ae, EP et 6 2 eeeCe oa eb Re a on rio Z ye