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-CHICAGS, May 7 (UPD—A]Saipan, wrote on their findings
medics! report said today thatiin the Journal of the Amerifaliout
atomic
victims
tests
Milscarriages
at
the
Bikinijcan
suffered
and
more}
a
Medical Association.
They studied the effects of
slowerio2 Marsheil Islands residents:
crowih rate than normal dur-/10 years after they were acing later years.
cidentally exposed to fallout
t
The report also said the vic-lradiation. They also surveyed
tims’ general health and death a group of relatives who were
rate
have
been
about
the
isame as for Bikini residents,not on Rongelap Island at che
iwho were not present at the,time of the detonation and
lttime of the 1954 tests.
|who |later returned.
It said no definite radiation,
Benign
effects were noted on birt |were
m
‘
iraic,
aging,
leukemia,
nancy or genotype.
;
malig-
thyroid
removed
h!
a
‘teen-a ze
Dr. Robert A. Conard, ofiyears
from
Rongelap
aficr
nodules
three,
girls
exposure,
10,
they
\Bro okhaven Nations! Lubora-(said. No nodules were detect‘tory, Upton, N.Y., and Arobatijed in 75 unexposed children.
\ Hicking, of the Trust Terri-/This year, three more cases af
tory of the Pacific islands, nodules have appeared,
| The report said other possi‘ble residual radiation effects
included slight retardation of
Statural growth and bone ma-
turation in boys exposed at
less than five years of age;)
‘greater incidence of miscarri-'
‘ages in exposed women during!
the
first four years;
plete
recovery
of
incom-!
some
pe-:
ripheral blood elements: and
increased nevus-like (skin
growth)
lesions
in
previous
beta
radiation
skin
burn
areas.
The report said there were
13 miscariages in 32 births
among
the
exposed
women,:
and only 8 in 38 births among!
the unexposed women.
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