Robison:
Maybe that is so.
to tell for sure.
I would have to look back at my specific data
But basically
Which of course I don’t have with me.
what happened is if that if we had a turtle from an area and measured it we
used that number.
Now, that number varies very little but at another atoll
it would be just a little bit different but very close; and so what we did
was we averaged all that and would apply that to an atoll where we had
nothing and, therefore, they don’t always look exactly alike, but they are
very, very similar no matter where you find them.
Buck:
I just happened to notice that down the line it seems like Mejit
ranks a little higher in all of those figures than Likiep.
Likiep -is a
little higher than Mejit.
Robison:
I think just an addition on the turtle question, we have sampled
enough turtles from around the area we feel we know basically what the
concentration
problem.
is in a turtle and it is very, very low and there is no
And we just don’t like to keep taking turtle samples because
there aren’t that many.
We don’t collect them just to go back and measure
them when we feel we know already that the concentration is very low and
there is no problem with the turtle.
~:
I’d like to clarify one thing, to make sure I heard it correctly.
Did someone suggest that male turtles are laying eggs too?
(Laughter! Only Roosters!)
deBrum:
Please correct that.
It’s an Ailuk rooster, not a turtle!
chance, because of the radiation problem?
Ray:
Bair:
Any
(more laughter)
Yes, Dr. Bair is ready with the information.
It was Phil’s question.
In 30,000 people you would expect normally about 6 people to have
thyroid cancer.
about 6.
I don’t remember what number you said.
But it is true in the Marshallese,
56
One?
It is really
in the 239 Marshallese who