Re: Three Thais critically injured by radioactive cobalt

["Greg & Claudia Yuhas" <uhaskep@castles.com>]

This sounds similar to the Juarez incident.  Does anyone have any factual
details?

Greg Yuhas
G.P. Yuhas and Associates
uhaskep@castles.com


>Three Thais critically injured by radioactive cobalt
>
>BANGKOK, Feb. 19 (Kyodo) - Three Thais were critically injured by
>radioactivity emanating from a sample of cobalt-60 they found in a
>used article shop, a doctor said Saturday.
>
>Two men and a woman were brought into the intensive care unit of
>a hospital in the suburban province Samutprakan, about 30
>kilometers south of Bangkok, in serious condition after they broke
>stainless cylinders containing the radioactive isotope of cobalt.
>
>''Their white cell level has reduced very rapidly, their skin was burnt
>and hair has fallen out,'' Chainarong Somboon, deputy director of
>the Samutprakan Hospital, told Kyodo News.
>
>In this condition they are at great risk from infectious diseases.
>Two of the three have been transferred to a hospital in Bangkok for
>blood treatment, he added.
>
>The three are workers at a used object trading shop in the province
>that bought the cylinders from an unnamed man several days ago.
>
>The 15 kilogram, 30 centimeter tall cylinders are suspected to have
>come from a medical device known commonly as a ''Cobalt Bomb''
>that is used to kill cancerous cells with radiation, said Chainarong.
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