Los Alamos Radiological Contamination Tracked

[struggle4progress]

Associated Press

LOS ALAMOS — Investigators are trying to determine whether a Los Alamos National Laboratory worker exposed to radioactive material spread it out of state.

The employee was exposed to americium 241 while working at the lab, and the contamination was detected July 25 on his skin and personal clothing, lab officials have said. <snip>

<Kathy DeLucas, a lab spokeswoman> declined to say where the decontamination team went out of state. <snip>

Americium 241 poises a significant health risk, including cancer, if inhaled or swallowed, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says. <snip>

http://www.abqjournal.com/north/aptrack08-02-05.htm

[LSparkle]

1. OMG -- I just saw "Stephen King's The Stand" last weekend

and this sounds eerily similar. YIKES!

[Kraklen]

2. The Stand?

A genetically engineered superbug sent by Satan and Jesus compared to some careless lab worker who contaminated himself with Americium?

[LSparkle]

4. Only in terms of how something could spread and kill

not to source of the bug.

[VegasWolf]

3. Side effects of exposure to Americium 241 include; decreased

mental capacity, an intolerance of others with different opinions,
and a fanatical feverish belief in sky people that can control you.

[struggle4progress]

5. I'll hazard a guess that this 411 isn't from the latest MMWR. eom