RE: 3 items of interest

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

Sounds to me like chronic alcoholism.



-- John 

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist 

3050 Traymore Lane

Bowie, MD  20715-2024



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

From: Norman Cohen [mailto:ncohen12@comcast.net]

Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 2:35 PM

To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: 3 items of interest





>From the know_nukes group:



drkberg wrote:

. . .

>

> 2. Psychiatrist Julia Malova (Moscow scientific center) reported new

> experience from observations of the tens of thousands of workers who

> cleaned up after Chernobyl.

> These workers are suffering from "unexpected health problems", such

> as degraded verbal ability, loss of memory, lessened ability to

> concentrate, as well as combined with depressions.

> The two major reasons for death are blood circulation 48%, and

> cancers 28%.

> Onkologists at Kiev/Ukraina have tracked 17,000 workers and noted an

> increased frequency of cancers, primarily stomach and lungs.

>

. . .

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