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What is the currently accepted theory behind the
leukemia clusters? Is it that they are statistical outliers?
I thought it was that it was viruses introduced by
a mobile workforce into isolated communities. I thought the clusters were
reproduced in other instances where mobile workers came into stable, immobile
communities.
This is not a very pleasant theory. It promotes
xenophobia and, to avoid stigmatizing cancer, bacterial and viral causes are not
in fashion ("Cancer is not contagious"). It is much easier to blame it on
radiation.
Kai
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