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Otatus of Ronge.apese Seath
5.
Pertinest to any discusaion of the roan of the specs
te their bees island is the body inselt seffered frem the fallous co Marea 1,
195.
One group of GO people recetved sbeut 175 reentgens waele tedy gaum
radiation, amd a eccond group of 15 recetved 6 rocatgem.
the met highly
expoecd group wight heve received am additiomsi 100 - 150 reps te the
thyroid from internally deposited iectepes af tndime.
The édapoeition of
bane sesking isotopes vas vary makli and ot two years the dDody Durden of
sinamtiun—, a8 estinsted vy winmeijeis wes ilttia greater than for controls
in the Ueditca Stetes.
Gy the je individue.s expoemd, &5 experienced super-
Tiele. Skin .2éloms and ~5 Gep -esiaoms Mile 3: ahowed sone decree of
epiiatiumn.
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The preavmt saditi.vo of the Rongeelap peop.e is cest descriled
b. tlhe recu.te of the two year medica. exasimation:#
G%e E@di.si eurve; ai the Aomge.iap pwople two years afler
exoeure to faliout radiation sho.s that Qe propie appear to hare
ceen im setcra..y good state of health aml gutrition and are aaking
gatisfector, recesery from their radiation exposure. Serie iilness
hes eccurred in two tndividumis Gut selteer those Llinesues nor
clintess Cimdings {mn other individwals emn be attrilted to rediation
effeeta.
Ome death in May 1996, thet of a Sé-year-old Roncelsap oan,
vas dee to hypertensive heart disease.
Previcus ezaminsticos had
shows. that the diseasa was undcabtediy present at the tim of axpoeure
to fallout radiation.
.
“there 1s ovitence of continued inprovenemt of heaopolesis. ‘The
that reported in the tuc-year follow-up studies of the Jepencses casualties
of the etomic bombings. Evidence frum the Marstallese experience ine
dicates that the lowered levels of these blood eluents have nct lovered
the restetence of the people to @isease, end the present ievels are
not considered to represent e sesious comit
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* Medical survey o: Marches llese ‘lwo Yeers After Expesure $oFalilout
tion.
Conmeni. 3. aA. et ai.
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Eraokhaven Rationa: Laboratory, March, 1956.