Re: Re[2]: Chernobyl Health Study Findings (fwd)

[John Goldsmith <gjohn@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>]

Mike:  I think your message on Chernobyl garbled the data on children.
       Thyroid cancer is up, but the case-fatality rate (deaths per 100 
cases) is low.  No increase has been found for childhood leukemia, and
increased leukemia for clean-up workers is now being looked for, but
there is no consensus on it yet.  Non-cancer deaths have not been 
adequately studied.   John Goldsmith, Ben Gurion U., Israel
gjohn@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
     

On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, MIKE RUSSELL wrote:

> 
>      Sure make one skepical of the "news":  the facts are taking a back seat
>      and the 10th year anniversary of the accident at Chernobyl is
>      effectively selling the dangers of radiation and nuclear power to our
>      kids and neighbors.  The concept of object true appears to be a farce.
> 
>      Recommend "Health Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident, Results of
>      the IPHECA Pilot Projects and Related National Programmes Summary
>      Report" World Health Organization, 1995.
> 
>      Childhood leukemias are up, leukemia shows no change...
> 
>      From WHO Publication Center 49 Sheridan Ave., Albany, NY 12210
>      (518) 436-9686.
> 
> 
>           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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