Antidote For Fallout
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m.) CHICAGO, April 16. Scientists today reported a promising antidote for dangerous radioactive Strontium 90 from atomic or hydroegn bomb fallout.
A report presented to the Federation o’f American Societies for Experimental Biology said Strontium 90 was the worst poison from bomb tests. It stayed dangerously radioactive for many years, and tended to concentrate in the bones after it entered the body. Human elimination of Strontium was increased when people were given infusions by vein of calcium, Doctors A. Spencer. Joseph Samachson, Bernard Kabakow, and Daniel Laszlo, of Montefiore Hospital, New York, reported. They said the body got rid of even more Strontium when ammonium chloride was given by mouth with the calcium treatment.
The studies were made on humans suffering from metabolic and malignant bone diseases.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28256, 18 April 1957, Page 7
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