RE: ARTICLE: Fallout likely caused 15,000 deaths

["Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>]

Jim,

I think that implying that the 1,800 plus cases of thyroid cancer is a

"small increase" is misleading, and I would even risk using the word false.

If we expect the public to listen, we must be truthful, and separate fact

from personal or political statement.



-- John 

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist 

3050 Traymore Lane

Bowie, MD  20715-2024



E-mail:  jenday1@email.msn.com (H)      



-----Original Message-----

From: Jim Muckerheide [mailto:jmuckerheide@cnts.wpi.edu]

Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 3:20 PM

To: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM; Douglas.Minnema@nnsa.doe.gov;

dkosloff1@EMAIL.MSN.COM; frantaj@AECL.CA; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: RE: ARTICLE: Fallout likely caused 15,000 deaths





 . . .

The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation

(UNSCEAR) has had to report that there are no deaths in the public even from

the Chernobyl accident, though the surrounding population was not evacuated.

Now, 16 years later, there is only a very small increase in the number of

thyroid cancers primarily in persons who were children less than about 7

years old at the time of the accident, with no related mortality reported.

This was confirmed in a June 2001 meeting that included the World Health

Organization (WHO) and the affected countries. Recently, the UNSCEAR, WHO

conclusions were confirmed in a report including the UN Childrens Fund and

UN Development Program.

. . .

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