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particularly amongchildren residing on Rongelap who
were less than 10 years of age at the time of their
exposure. One case of acute myeloblastic leukemia,
occurring in a 19-year-old @male who was one year
of age in 1954, had been diagnosed in 29 years of
medical surveillance.® There has been no evidence of
an increase in birth defects in children of exposed
gelap and 14 rads of whole body gammaradiation on
Uuirik, have been well described by Conard et al.' While
all survived the acute effects, the major findings in the
Rongelap group were “‘beta”’ skin burns with epilation,
transient depression of the blood count, and internal
absorption of radionuclides.” No acute findings were
documentedin the Utirik group. Medical evaluation
in the ensuing years revealed a high incidence of thyroid nodule formation and thyroid hypofunction with
parents and mutantproteins have not been uncovered.’
Medical monitoringof the children and grandchildren
of exposed persons continues.
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ization of radioactive iodines, these findings were found
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