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health.
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No One’ foresees any such dire consequences from the rolatively low level
fallout from the Nevada weapons tests, or from peaceful atomic activities.
Nevortheless, the St. George experionce has put both atomic scientists and physici
on sharper suard than ever before.
Dr. Lee ©. Farr, who is both a pediatrician
av the University of Texas, in Houston, said recently: "I think we have to assume
vhero is a relationship between the St. George findings and radiation.
trinx we can at this point rule out anything.
temporary disturbance, all well and good.
I don't
If the thyroid condition is a
But this kind of statistic in an
epidemiological survey simply catnot be shrugged off."
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Dr. Farr was for many years the medical director of the Brookhaven -
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and an expert on atomic effocts, a professor of muclear and experimental medicine