[ RadSafe ] RadSafe Digest, Vol 240, Issue 1

[Peterson, Ken]

You likely won't find much information from Warsaw Pact countries.

Not sure of all of them, but I know in 1986, abortion was still illegal in Romania under Ceauşescu. I know from friends there that any birth defects or cancer deaths over the next ten years were blamed on Chernobyl, no matter what the circumstances....


Ken Peterson
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Von: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] Im Auftrag von Bjorn Cedervall
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. M?rz 2010 13:02
An: radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu
Betreff: Re: [ RadSafe ] Chernobyl-related abortions


I checked the references below (and about ten more - mainly from the same
"Biomed and Pharmacother" - Vol. 45, 1991). First, the "Anynomous" in J.
Nucl Medicine (April and June issues, 1987) seems to be Linda E. Ketchum -
it would be interesting to contact her if possible (where?).
 
What I tried to focus on in these papers is where the 100 000 - 200 000
"extra" abortions estimate comes from (probably IAEA but I cannot find an
exact reference).
 
For Greece (Trichopoulos et al., 1987) an estimate indicates about 2500  and
for Italy (Spinelli & Osborn, 1991) the number of such abortions has been
estimated by using different models but if we give it 30 per day (my choice
here) the bottom line would land in the order of 5000. No such effect seems
to have been observed in Finland whereas Denmark showed a slight increase in
some areas (can probably be challenged statistically). This far, I haven't
seen any corresponding estimations for former Soviet Union or Central
Europe.
 
My personal comment only,
 
Bjorn Cedervall  bcradsafers at hotmail.com

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