More Negative Press

[Floyd Galpin <fgalpin@compuserve.com>]

I thought the list might find this piece that was on the AOL "HOT" news
listing interesting.

Reuters Hourly News Summary 

Chernobyl Linked to US Leukemia 

A researcher says the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine may have
caused a 30 percent increase in leukemia cases among U.S. children born
soon after. Joseph Mangano of the Radiation and Public Health Project in
New York said he found evidence of the increase in cancer registries for 12
U.S. states and cities. There have been no reports of more cases of
childhood leukemia in countries closest to the site such as Belarus,
Finland and Sweden. But there has been a clear rise in incidence of thyroid
cancer in children. 

06:37 04-18-97