[ RadSafe ] Re: Young Chernobyl Victims Heal in Cuban Sun

[Cehn at aol.com]

To add the the excellent responses already posted, notice the alledged  
Chenobyl effects in children born years after the accident.  When I visited  the 
region in 1993, it seemed that illnesses in infants and young children were  ALL 
attributed to radiation.  Its a fact that exposures to infants born  after 
about 1987 (& mothers during pregnancy) are vanishingly  small.  I also noticed 
that reparations paid by the government tended to  attract claimants.
 
Joel I. Cehn, CHP
_joelc at alum.wpi.edu_ (mailto:joelc at alum.wpi.edu) 
 
In a message dated 7/7/2005 8:37:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time,  
radsafe-request at radlab.nl writes:

>  Subject: [graffis-l] Young Chernobyl Victims Heal in Cuban Sun
> Date:  Wed, 6 Jul 2005 12:17:40 -0400
>
> Planet Ark : FEATURE - Young  Chernobyl Victims Heal in Cuban Sun
> CUBA: July 6, 2005
>  http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/31533/story.htm
>
>  TARARA - At a beach resort near Havana, children with bald heads and  skin
> lesions splash with joy in the warm Caribbean  sea.
>
> They are victims of radiation fallout from the worst  civilian disaster of
> the nuclear age -- the 1986 power plant explosion  in Chernobyl -- and 
> are  in
> Cuba for treatment.
>  "I want to stay here," says Sveta, a blue-eyed 15-year-old from  Ukraine's
> capital Kiev whose eyelashes are beginning to grow  back.
> Since 1990, communist Cuba has treated free of charge 18,000  Ukrainian
> children for hair loss, skin disorders, cancer, leukaemia  and other
> illnesses attributed to the radioactivity unleashed by the  reactor 
> meltdown
> years before they were  born.