[ RadSafe ] Radiation, chemicals and power lines are not sign ificant in childhood leukemia

[John Jacobus]

No.  It is the common biological response to
infectious diseases like polio, influenza, chicken
pox, etc.  Response is achieved by development of a
vaccine.

--- "Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj at aecl.ca> wrote:
> This sounds an awful lot like hormesis :
> 
> <quote>
> Roman's team set out to test whether exposure to
> infections very early in
> life could somehow train the immune system to
> protect against the cancer.
> 
> They focused on acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a
> common form of the disease
> that usually strikes between the ages of two and
> five - the time most
> children start going to playgroups. The team found
> that children who
> attended day care during the first three months of
> life had half the normal
> risk of developing the disease (C. Gilham et al. Br.
> Med. J.
> doi:10.1136/bmj. 38428.521042.8F; 2005).
> 
> Attention is now turning to how to prevent
> leukaemia.
> Encouraging parents to send their children to
> playgroups early in life is
> one obvious option.
> <end quote>
> 
> 
> Jaro 
> 
> 


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Hugh Blair, 1783

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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