Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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"DEATHS & CANCER FROM ACCIDENT STILL IN DISPUTE"
Doctors at the children's cancer hospital in Minsk, Belarus & Vilne Hospital,
east of Ukraine, are in no doubt that they are seeing unusually high rates of cancer, mutations, blood diseases, genetic diseases, internal organ deformities & thyroid cancer, up to hundreds of miles away from the Chernobyl nuclear power station accident which happened in 1986. Infant deaths have increased 20-30%.
But proving that these effects are caused by the world's greatest release of radioactivity is impossible as there have been no comprehensive, co-ordinated studies of the health consequences of the nuclear accident. Belarus National Academy of Sciences estimates there have been 93,000 deaths so far & 270,000 cancers. The Ukrainian National Commission for Radiation Protection have calculated 500,000 deaths so far. But the International Atomic Energy Agency claim only 56 people have died so far & that 4,000 eventual deaths may be too high an estimate.
Guardian 11.01.2010
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