Re: Report: Pentagon Asks for Anti-Radiation Drug

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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Office:

MR Dr. Franz Schoenhofer

Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management

Dep. I/8U, Radiation Protection

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e-mail: franz.schoenhofer@bmu.gv.at







-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Von: Bjorn Cedervall <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>

An: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Datum: Freitag, 07. Dezember 2001 14:32

Betreff: Report: Pentagon Asks for Anti-Radiation Drug





>FYI.

>

>Bjorn Cedervall    bcradsafers@hotmail.com

>

>NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Defense Department is pressing for the approval of

>a new drug that could help against radiation amid worries that Osama bin

>Laden (news - web sites) and his al Qaeda network may have radioactive

>weapons in their possession, The New York Times reported on Friday.

>

>So far the drug, a steroid hormone known as 5-androstenediol that appears

to

>strengthen the immune system, has been tested as a radiation protectant

only

>in mice, the newspaper said in its online edition.





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Why are most of us opposing the nonsense that Norman Cohen distributes, when

such nonsense as the above is distributed obviously to support the idea that

"take a pill and you are safe from radiation"?????



Franz









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