- LONDON (Xinhua) -- A medical expert has claimed that the Chernobyl nuclear
disaster in 1986 may have caused more than 1,000 infant deaths in Britain.
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- John Urquhart, an epidemiologist, made
the revelation in a speech at a Nuclear Fr ee Local Authorities conference
in London tocoincide with the 20th anniversary of the disaster.
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- His research suggested the fatalities
in the years following Chernobyl were higher in areas where the fallout
plume passed overhead, Sky news reported on Thursday.
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- The epidemiologist has studied health
statistics in areas where"black rain" clouds passed over following
the Soviet reactor explosion.
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- In his calculation, there was an 11 percent
rise in infant deaths between 1986 and 1989 in affected areas as opposed
to 4 percent in other areas. And that translated into more than 1,000 deaths.
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- His study also suggested that a downward
trend in infant mortality in affected areas was interrupted in the four
years after Chernobyl.
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- The report quoted official maps as indicating
fallout sweeping through southeast England including London before curving
round westward towards Northern Ireland.
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- It is estimated that around half of the
land mass of England and Wales were potentially affected. Enditem
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- http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/24/content_4338535.htm
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- Patricia A. Doyle, DVM, PhD- Bus Admin,
Tropical Agricultural Economics
- Univ of West Indies
- Please visit my "Emerging Diseases"
message board at:
- http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php
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