Many Japanese did die agonizing deaths from
radiation sickness soon after the bombings, but contrary to what is widely believed, there is scant evidence that the children of survivors were any more likely to be born with defects or mutations than in non-bombed populations, or that survivors had much higher incidents of cancer.
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About 200,000 are estimated to have been killed, including those who survived the bombing itself but later died from
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In the immediate aftermath, 237 people were treated for acute
radiation sickness, and 31 of them died within three months.
"Given their size, ease of storage, and unique biodistribution, we anticipate ERC-124 derived exosomes may be used to treat burn wounds,
radiation sickness, and extracorporeal treatment of organs for transplantation."
After 10 hours, a worker in that proximity to the leak would develop
radiation sickness with symptoms including nausea and a drop in white blood cells.
Neither group knew of '
radiation sickness' nor were they told of the connection between the ash and their illnesses.
When she awakens again, Erica learns that she and her brother Dean have been abducted by the Shee'a—inhabitants of the planet Shee—in order to save their population from
radiation sickness. She and Dean are to be used as bearers of a microscopic organism, the “Pure,” which feeds on radiation—the radiation that is killing the Shee'a.
Illustrations of the subatomic world explain everything from the research that led to the first fission reactor to the
radiation sickness that poisoned residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
While some of the pharmaceuticals used to treat acute
radiation sickness have been available for years, several others are in testing phases.
The woman told me that her grandmother, caught in the 10-mile exclusion zone of Hiroshima, had died as a result of
radiation sickness; and today everyone in Japan was affected by the Fukushima disaster.