Re: Chernobyl Health Study Findings (fwd)

["David P. Turkow" <TURKOW.DP@a1.rit.edu>]

          Recently had to sit through a CBS News report on Chernobyl that 
          professed that 30,000 people had died as a result of this 
          "terrible disaster". Can anyone refute this in a scientifically 
          based study ? I've heard some very knowledgeable people talk on 
          the subject and it seems to me that very few of these people 
          actually died and they were, for the most part, the firemen 
          (military in the old USSR) that died (approx. 25). If there is 
          good info I'd like to forward it to CBS and ask for the 
          correction of a gross misrepresentation.
          
          Thanks in advance and if I missed something the last week on this 
          subject I apologize - my computer bit the dust, just got it back.
          
          
          
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