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A study from the University of Georgia surveyed over 400 emergency medical workers from the United States and Japan and found that more than half had not received any formal training on radiation-related health issues.

December 14th, 2017

“……”What we found was that medical personnel were actually more afraid of radiation than they were of biological or chemical events,” the study’s lead author Cham E. Dallas said in a statement……”

Dallas CE, Klein KR, Lehman T, Kodama T, Harris CA and Swienton RE (2017) Readiness for Radiological and Nuclear Events among Emergency Medical Personnel. Front. Public Health 5:202. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00202

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