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and no untoward changes are apparent.

in this group weresimilar to those in the exposed
Rongelap group. Appendix 9 summarizes the

Ailingnae Population

Utirik Population

very different from those of the 11-year survey.

Ailingnae counts since 1954.

The mean blood counts in the 14 Ailingnae

The Utirik population, examinedin 1966, had

people at 11 years were about the sameasin the
unexposed comparison population, except that

mean leukocyte counts and differential counts not
very different from those of 3 years previously. No

platelet levels were higher. At 12 years the counts

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