Nuclear Test Downwinders

RECA, clinic help Nuclear Test Downwinders

The spectrum.com BY PATRICE ST. GERMAIN April 10, 2009

“…………………..From 1951 to 1958 and for the month of July 1962, an estimated 22,000 people living in Southern Utah, northern Arizona and southeastern Nevada received a large amount of fallout from above-ground nuclear testing conducted at the Nevada Test Site.

These Downwinders, as they have come to be known, show abnormally high rates of malignant and non-malignant thyroid disease and leukemia and over the last decade have shown a higher then expected incidence of lymphoma, breast and thyroid cancers, according to the Utah Cancer Registry……………

April 14, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, radioactive, uranium