RE: A Bomb victims health

["Ted Rockwell" <tedrock@CPCUG.ORG>]

> A-bomb survivors at Nagasaki and Hiroshima

> are healthier



Norm:



True, and completely consistent with data on people in high natural

radiation areas like Denver and Ramsar.  Also downwinders and workers in

nuclear facilities.  In all these cases, when the work is honestly done,

low-dose irradiation is shown to benefit health.



This is even true for the work of Sternglass, et al. who then comb thru

various sub-groups until they find one that comes out positive.



For the A-bomb survivors, those who got high-dose irradiation had a slightly

higher cancer rate than unirradiated population, but the beneficial effect

at the lower rates more than compensated for this.  Overall, there were

between 400 and 450 additional cancers in the survivors (a small fraction of

all cancers), but death from all causes in this group was below expected and

this group is outliving the unirradiated controls.



TR





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