PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED Whydo I need to take medicine for my thyroid? If you had an operation and yourthyroid gland was removed, the medicine will do the job that your thyroid used to do. So, you must keep taking your medicine. Some people who did not have the operation also take the medicine so that their thyroid glands do not get sick. It is very important that you take your medicine if you want to stay healthy. Whatkind of radiation caused thyroid sickness and leukemia? Thyroid sickness in the Rongelap people exposed to fallout was caused by damage to the thyroid gland from a “thyroid radiation poison.” It took a long timefor the sickness to show. A few unexposed Rongelap people as well as some people in the Marshall Islands and all] over the world develop thyroid sickness, but it is not due to radiation. All the “thyroid poison” on Rongelap was gone when the people moved back. Leukemia is a disease of the blood. Some cases were caused by radiation in Japan andit is possible that leukemia mayhave been dueto radiation. Time is about past for any more leukemia to be expected from radiation. What will happen to the people who were not exposed to radiation but are now i living on Rongelap and Utirik? They don’t have to worry because there is practically no chance that anyof the people will get sick from radiation since there is so very little radiation left on the shePetree Fat Pte 2 aSee edheA8 islands. Feast - People They are Rongelap people. They are healthy, too.