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status in the fifected people and enhanced growth and development in
children who had showed growth retardation.
In 1972 a 19 year old Rongelap man who had been exposed at one ~year of age died of acute leukemia.
He had extensive treatment at
the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health.
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The ill-
ness may have been induced by radiation.
The annual medical examinations of the exposed Marshallese people
continue with a team of highly qualified medical specialists.
In addi-
tion we now have a resident physician stationed in the Marshall Islands
who makes at least quarterly visits for health care to the exposed
people on the outer islands.