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That

is hard to determine.

white cell and platelets fell.
to put it mildly.

Their

Chicken hematology is bizarrei,

They have practically no platelets, for

example.

We have done pathology on the chickeds that died
or were sacrificed.

We sacrificed four or five pigs so far,

and we were not able to say anything likely about any
pathological changes.

We do have radio-audiographs on the

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animals which might be particularly interesting here.
is a radio-audiograph of the tibia of one of

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The bone morphologically does not appear to be normal.

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is parveculi extending through the shaft whih is abnormal

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in a mammalian bone.

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probably indicates a failure of an osteoabsorption and

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periosteo-aberration.

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is that there are two areas od dense concentration of. the

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trabecula whth corresponds on the radio-audiograph to two

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separate regions of high concentrations of radioactive

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material,

There

The particular thing about this bone

It was the opinion of Dr. Norris, who did this
that these indicate two separate

and distinct exposures to fallout material.

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There is a lot o@

discussion on this, and it is

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pretty hard to come to a definit econclusion because we,

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one, don't have controls on these animals, and second, there

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the young pigs.

‘There is a thickening here which

particular audiograph,

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