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Fallout Test Reveals Lukemia
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240 Marshall Islanders exposed to fallout from a 1954 hydrogen bomb test has reported the first identifiedcase. of feuke-..
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Mrs. Gail Bradshaw, a spokeswoman for the Abomic Ea i,|
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Conrad said that a person’s risk of leukemia, normallyao
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The most frequent ailmant among the Marshali Talanders:"
exposed to the fallout is ocourenoces of thyroid nodules. Mm. *
me Bradshaw said there have been about 25 auch cases, including —
two this year, and that in ali but three oases, the small tumore
were benign. She said there have bean no fatalities among the |
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there has been a high rate of leukemia oasea mong persone;
exposed to fallout from the atomic blasts at Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
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The leukemia patient is a 19-year-old male from the island-.
of Rongetap, a neighboring island of Bikini, where the actual
explosion was conducted. “While we were on the island our:
examinations revealed that his blood count was low,” Conard
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