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Call for volunteers to assist radiation Baby Tooth Survey

text-Please-NoteVolunteers Needed: Baby Tooth Survey to Assess the Effect of Nuclear Fallout From Above-Ground Nuclear Testing http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2013/09/volunteers-needed-baby-tooth-survey-to-assess-the-effect-of-nuclear-fallout-from-above-ground-nuclea.html  

A group of genealogy volunteers is needed for a project of unique historical and medical significance. You can help! In the 1960’s thousands of school-age children sent their baby teeth to the Baby Tooth Survey to assess the effect of the nuclear fallout from above-ground nuclear testing.  Over the 12-year life of the program, 320,000 teeth were collected. Examination of the teeth revealed higher than normal levels of Strontium 90 (Sr-90), leading to the Partial Test Ban Treaty of August 5, 1963.

The Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) is conducting a follow-up study to assess the incidence of cancer among Baby Boomers who exhibited higher than normal levels of Sr-90 in their teeth. They are looking for volunteers to help catalog information from 85,000 baby teeth from the program to help locate tooth-donors.  Information these donors provide about their health will contribute to our knowledge of the long-term effects of low levels of radiation exposure. The project organizers need volunteers to scan information cards and to transcribe the scanned images to facilitate contact with these donors:

  • Volunteers in or near Ocean City, New Jersey, can help by scanning the information cards.
  • Interested volunteers anywhere else in the world can help by transcribing the scanned images created by the Ocean City volunteers.

You can learn more in the graphic below as well as at http://goo.gl/mveltE. Information about the Radiation and Public Health Project Follow-up may be found at http://www.radiation.org.

September 3, 2013 - Posted by | ACTION

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