kiessig@idi.UUCP (Rick Kiessig) (06/10/85)
From the Orange County Register, 5-29-85: "Statistics turned up by Dr. Samuel Milham Jr., an epidemiologist for Washington state, suggest that ham radio operators may be nearly twice as prone to leukemia as the rest of the population. Reporting in The Lancet, Milham presented the results of a survey of more than 1,900 amateur radio operators in Washington and California who died from 1971 to 1983. From dead certificates, he discovered that 24 of 1,691 subjects had died from various types of leukemia. The expected number of leukemia victims in a suitably matched control group would have been 12.6." -- Rick Kiessig {decvax, ucbvax}!sun!idi!kiessig {akgua, allegra, amd, burl, cbosgd, decwrl, dual, ihnp4}!idi!kiessig Phone: 408-996-2399