Current urgent research needs in the area of radiation health and safety includes:
http://ccnr.org/radiation_standards.html

Funding of serious analysis of the Kerala data, with full involvement and credit given to those who have carefully collected this data without proper financial support from either governments or the nuclear industry.

Research into the dose response estimates appropriate for teratogenic effects of radiation and inclusion of these effects in the administrative category of "detriments".

Research into dose response relationships between radiation exposure and the occurrence of: cysts; blood abnormalities; autoimmune diseases; hormonal disruptions; reduced fertility; skin cancer (including non-melanoma), and the so-called "transient" effects of exposure which disrupt homeostasis.

IRRADIATED BLOOD
http://www.fda.gov/ora/inspect_ref/igs/blood.html

Experimental data have established that in certain immunodepressed patients transfusion of foreign immunocompetent cells (T lymphocytes) may lead to graft versus host disease (GVHD). GVHD occurs when donor T lymphocytes engraft, multiply and react against the tissues of the recipient. The radiosensitivity of these T lymphocytes is higher than that of other blood cells, so irradiation of cellular blood products before rransfusion appears to be effective in preventing the transfusion induced form of this serious complication. The AABB has recently recommended that blood components prepared from directed blood donations from first degree family members (i.e., parents, children, siblings) be irradiated to decrease the risk of GVHD. The CBER issued guidance via a July 7, 1993, memorandum titled "Recommendations Regarding License Amendments and Procedures for Gamma Irradiation of Blood Products". This document addresses manufacturing and quality assurance procedures, labeling, other aspects of production and the use of irradiated blood and blood products. It also provides background on the effects of gamma radiation on product quality & stability, guidance on license amendments, record keeping and fatality reporting. If any questionable procedures for irradiating blood are encountered during an inspection notify the Division of Inspections and Surveillance, (301) 594-1191.

The immune system is a complex network that helps fight diseases and foreign substances. The most important cells in the immune system are lymphocytes which are a type of white blood cell. Of the cells of the immune system, lymphocytes are the most susceptible to radiation.

The immune system helps fight infectious diseases, such as pneumonia and chicken pox. When the immune system is not working properly, serious illness can result from immune system disorders or autoimmune diseases.

Immune system disorders include allergic reactions and disruption of the immune surveillance system. The prime function of this system is to detect and eliminate cells and molecules foreign to the body.

In autoimmune diseases, the immune system is no longer able to distinguish between the body's own cells and foreign cells, such as germs. This inability to distinguish between "self" and "non-self" results in an immune system response directed at the person's own tissues. This is called an autoimmune response. Rheumatoid arthritis, Graves' disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, insulin-dependent diabetes, some blood disorders, and multiple sclerosis are examples of autoimmune disease.

The immune system may be impaired at birth or during a person's lifetime. It may be weakened by such things as malnutrition, treatment with X-rays or drugs used to treat cancer. When the immune system is disrupted, a person is more susceptible to infection, and sometimes to autoimmune disorders and some cancers, such as multiple myeloma.

Is there any connection between a person's exposure to radiation in the environment and effects on the immune system? Studies attempting to answer this question typically address the effects of either high- dose or low-dose radiation.

    HIGH-DOSE RADIATION

Researchers know more about how high-dose radiation affects the immune system than about whether and how low-dose radiation affects it. High-dose radiation can be defined as any exposure above 50 rad to the whole body. Such exposures often occur over a short time. Information about the high-dose radiation effects on humans comes mostly from studies of Japanese atomic bomb victims, radiation accidents and medical uses of radiation.

The effects of radiation on the immune system generally intensify with the amount of dose received. Massive cell death, inflammation and infection are the acute effects of high-dose radiation exposure. The number of lymphocytes declines within the first 12 to 48 hours after exposure. This is followed over several weeks by a decline in the number of other blood cells. The decline in lymphocytes is one of the best early signs of the severity of the radiation injury. During this period of decline, fevers, infections and bleeding can result in death. In those who survive, the time for recovery of the immune system varies depending on the level of exposure. The immune system usually recovers within a couple of months.

Death always occurs at whole-body radiation doses above 1500 rad. Despite supportive medical treatment, death is probable at whole-body doses between 500 and 1500 rad without a bone marrow transplant. Most people survive whole-body doses between 200 and 400 rad, particularly with supportive care. Whole-body doses below 200 rad generally cause a moderate decrease of white cells and mild intestinal symptoms, including nausea and vomiting.

Medical researchers have studied the use of high-dose radiation in treating diseases. Radiation treatments are used to kill cancer cells. High doses of whole-body radiation are often used as part of a patient's preparation for a bone-marrow transplant. This whole-body radiation lowers both the number and function of lymphocytes, as well as other types of white blood cells. Partial body exposures cause less serious effects. The higher the dose, the greater the decrease in cells.

Since lymphocytes are particularly active against bacteria and viruses, patients who receive whole-body radiation treatments are more susceptible to infections. There is a short-term increase in the risk of bacterial and viral infections. With either whole-body or partial body exposures, high-dose radiation treatments may lower lymphocyte levels for several years. During this period of time, there is an increase in the risk of shingles, which is caused by the chicken pox virus.

There is some information to suggest that the age of a person at the time of exposure also affects radiation sensitivity. Certain people, such as infants, young children and the elderly, tend to be at greater risk for health effects from radiation exposure. Lymphocytes in newborns are the most sensitive to radiation. Current studies are trying to define why certain cells in the immune system are more sensitive than other cells and what aspect of their function is affected. The results of these studies may be of interest to people exposed to Hanford's radioactive releases.

    LOW-DOSE RADIATION

Researchers know less about the effects of low-dose radiation on the immune system than about the effects of high-dose radiation. Low doses can be defined as those less than 50 rad to the whole body.

Low-dose radiation has been shown to cause mutations and chromosome aberrations in the lymphocytes of children and adults. Researchers do not know how this information relates to the overall health of the immune system.

Low doses can cause leukemia, a cancer of cells in the immune system. Leukemia is currently the only blood system disorder clearly related to low-dose exposures. Dr. Alice Stewart and others found an increased risk of leukemia in children exposed to X-rays while in the womb. There is currently no medical evidence that cell mutations in exposed persons will cause immune system diseases.

Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

In 1994, a team of Japanese scientists reported finding an increased risk for autoimmune hypothyroidism among people exposed during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in World War II.1 This study did not include the survivors of the Hiroshima bombing. Apparently, this is the first report of detecting a significant increase in an autoimmune disease among people who survived the atomic bombings.

The authors pointed out that the doses assigned to the study participants did not account for any internal exposure from bomb fallout, just the external dose from the bomb blast. There is no information to calculate internal doses from fallout.

Chapter Seven also offers disturbing evidence that many members of the baby-boom generation, who were born into the nuclear age, sustained
an observable degree of immune-system damage. The successive cohorts of persons born since 1945, who were exposed to ingested fission
products in utero, at birth, or in early childhood, are now registering ominous increases in their mortality rates. These generations are
disproportionately affected by a wide range of immune deficiency diseases, including AIDS, Chronic Epstein Barr Virus (known as "yuppie
influenza" or "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome") and many others.

Chapter Ten explores a heretical hypothesis, first advanced by radiation physicists Ernest Sternglass and Jens Scheer, that may explain why
AIDS first emerged in the wetlands of Africa in 1980. These areas of high rainfall received the heaviest fallout during the years of atmospheric
bomb tests, as indicated by United Nations surveys taken at the end of the 1950s. The surveys showed human bones there had the world's
highest concentrations of radioactive strontium-90. The hypothesis links the damaged immune systems of persons reaching their peak years of
sexual activity in the 1980s to viruses mutated by radiation, and to dietary factors such as calcium intake. Sternglass and Scheer cite the
extraordinary case of the West Indies island of Trinidad, which has a population of largely African and Asian origin, and where AIDS is found
only among people of African origin and not at all among those of Asian descent. This discrepancy, Sternglass and Scheer propose, may be due
to the dominance of calcium-rich fish and rice in the Asian diet, which offsets the tendency for radioactive strontium (which has a chemical
structure similar to calcium) to concentrate in their bones.

The everyday releases of low-level radioactivity by nuclear power plants has been found to cause several kinds of health damage including premature births, congenital defects, infant mortality, mental retardation, heart ailments, arthritis, diabetes, allergies, asthma, cancer, genetic damage and chronic fatigue syndrome. It has been linked to previously unknown infectious diseases, and the resurgence of old ones by damaging the developing white blood cells originating in the bone marrow and thus weakening the immune system.

Dr. Sternglass conjectures what could happen: "With countless thousands of persons having a weaker and weaker immune system as the result of increasing radioactive contamination of the air and food chain, an AIDS mutation-like disease could become a new Black Plague. It's not inconceivable that entire nations could be decimated." (Interview in National Catholic Reporter, October 16, 1997)

The ‘search for a vaccine and cure for AIDS’ has become a multi-billion dollar, multi-national enterprise. The obscene scam has two distinct facets – both invented. One is that AIDS is a single disease and the other is that it is ‘caused’ by the H.I. virus (or the ‘HIV virus’ as some like to call it – perhaps they think the V stands for volcano). These two total fabrications have created an empire of animal-and human-torturing fraud of impressive proportions.

In Japan, AIDS is virtually unknown; yet, in random tests, 25% of people were found to be ‘HIV-positive’; a virtually meaningless label which can be produced by a response to a vaccination, malnutrition, MS, measles, influenza, papilloma virus wart, Epstein Barr virus, leprosy, hepatitis b and c, syphillis, glandular fever...over sixty conditions.

The ‘HIV causes AIDS’ hoax was created by Robert Gallo, who was found guilty of ‘scientific misconduct’.

‘...instead of trying to prove his insane theories about AIDS to his peers...he went public. Then, with the help of Margaret Heckler, former head of health and human services, who was under great political pressure to come up with an answer to AIDS, the infamous world press announcement of the discovery of the so-called AIDS virus came about. This great fraud is now responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands...It was no accident that Gallo just happened to patent the test for HIV the day after the announcement...

Gallo is now a multi-millionaire because of AIDS and his fraudulent AIDS test.’

    Dr Robert Willner

Wilner injected himself with the blood of Pedro Tocino, a HIV-positive haemophiliac, on live Spanish TV; an event which made the front pages of the Spanish national press but did not arouse any interest in the USA or the UK.

‘HIV... is one thousandth the size of a regular cell...HIV is simply a harmless piece of dead tissue, not unlike the numerous other retroviruses that exist in our body.’ –Willner.

By grouping together 25-plus different diseases and other allied factors – tuberculosis, pneumonia, candidiasis, herpes, salmonella, various cancers, infections, vaccine/antibiotic damage, amyl nitrate damage etc. – and calling the whole thing an ‘AIDS epidemic’, a multi-billion dollar/pound/yen ‘AIDS research’ and ‘treatment’ racket has been created.

At the same time, a large group of homosexuals, blacks, drug-users, Hispanics, the homeless and the rest of the undesirables have been easy prey for the social-cullers and the drug boys, particularly Wellcome who make the immune-system wrecking amyl nitrate poppers and also the lethal AZT, which is used on the ‘HIV-positive’ victims of the nitrates!

AZT began as a cancer drug but was withdrawn for being too toxic – like being thrown out of the Gestapo for cruelty. ‘Side’ effects include cancer, hepatitis, dementia, seizures, anxiety, leukopaenia, severe nausea, impotence, ataxia, insomnia and DNA-synthesis termination. i.e. AIDS/death by prescription. AZT eventually kills all who continue to take it.

None of which stops the medical trade from pushing it on every trusting sap who is not ill to start with but finds him/herself labelled with the ‘HIV-positive’ nonsense and is then destroyed by AZT, with AIDS getting the blame and more millions pouring in for the drug boys, vivisectors, animal breeders and their on-the-payroll media pals.

The triple combination of the ‘HIV-positive’ diagnosis, the prognosis – stated or implied – ‘You will die of AIDS’ and ‘treatment’ with the deadly AZT is one of the great pieces of Medical Black Magic – Voodoo Medicine at its most impressive.

500 of the world's leading scientists are now disputing the HIV/AIDS hoax. Their efforts continually suppressed by the medical establishment, the pharma/vivisection syndicate, the BBC and the rest.

‘As applied, the HIV theory...is useless as a medical hypothesis.’
Dr Kary Mullis Nobel Prize 1993.

‘The sentences of death accompanying the medical diagnosis of AIDS should be abolished.’
Dr Alfred Hassig.

‘I have seen the constant terror and the programming to get sick and die.’
Michael Ellner – medical hypnotist.

‘I am well convinced HIV is harmless.’
Dr Fabio Franchi.

‘The AIDS epidemic was a mirage.’
Prof Hiram Caton.