gee eee aaee SP IY In Maren 1954, 2 paople of Pongzlep Island in the Marshall Island: vere ay aecideatelly cxposed to sublethal doses of fallout reciation during the atomle bomb testing program. ads whole-bocy gemun-ray Sixty-four of these people received evout 175 « osuve and 18 received ebout 69 reds, Additions! radiation exposure occurred from radioactive material deposited on the skin and hair and frou incested vadionuclides. This report sur: findings in tha cdults. Early nausce with voalting dinrrhon occurxvad in both children and fo an? adults. The depression ef leukocyte and platelet levels thet develop2d was 3 nore pronounces in the children. , Eota burns of the skin end epilation were a s 8 a > bade 9 bh 2 8 minimal scerrin: — more severe in the chiléren but in all ege groups healing was rapid with s complete. Growth and development appeared to be clichtly retexded in some exposed children coupared to nom: exrnocsed children, This growth les was perticulerly prominent in boys.whs were loss than 5 years of eze at tire of exposurc. No acute effects vere noted in connection with the intern] ahsorption of radionuclides. It has been calculated that the thyroid gland had absorbed ebout Il micrecuries of 1 31y end that the thyroid glands of young children |in the a heavily exposed group received doses of 700 to'1490 rads. roid nodule wis foun’? in a li-year o ld ont eixl. In 1963, a thy- i i During the next 5 years 17 cases of thyroid ebnormalities (18 with necules, 2 with hypethyroidism) were detected, all cmong e group of 19 children who were exposed at lecs than 10 hysold nodules hoya bara noted In 45 unenposed children 5001349