Re: more on Critics Allege Infant Mortality Rate

["Tony Harrison" <laharris@smtpgate.dphe.state.co.us>]

Thanks to Mr. Baker for the URL.

I just checked Colorado Vital Statistics for infant mortality rates from 1989 to 1998 for Larimer & Weld Counties, Colorado.  Mr Mangano claims these are downwind of the (ex)Fort St. Vrain reactor.  Maybe, maybe not.  Anyway, infant mortality rates did in fact decline in that period.  Guess what?  They did in the rest of the State too.  Hooray for modern medicine and neonatology.

I recommend checking infant mortality rates (and other endpoints if you can find them) for "downwind" counties around reactors that did not close in the period in question.  If the rates declined in the same manner, you can pretty much discount reactors as having anything to do with the effect.

Regards,
Tony Harrison
Colo. Dept. of Public Health & Environment
tony.harrison@state.co.us 
(303)692-3046


>>> "Michael C. Baker" <mcbaker@lanl.gov> 04/26/00 11:20AM >>>


For those of you interested in reading Mangano's article:

http://www.stockton-press.co.uk/eet/v2n1/pdf/7600024a.pdf 


Mike

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