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9 – 12 March 2006 Montforthaus, Feldkirch, Vorarlberg/Austria
Int. Conference: 20 Years of Living with Chernobyl, Feldkirch 2006 2 Patron: Dr. Herbert Sausgruber Head of Provincial Government of Vorarlberg Organizer Otto Hug Strahleninstitut – MHM e. V., Munich, Germany Province of Vorarlberg, Austria European Working Group „Mut zur Ethik", Zurich, Switzerland Österreichische Ärztekammer, Vienna, Austria Deutscher Verband für Tschernobyl-Hilfe e. V., Munich, Germany Foundation „Ein Herz für krebskranke Kinder", Dudelange, Luxemburg Hippokratische Gesellschaft Schweiz, Zurich, Switzerland Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Environment and Water Supply, Vienna, Austria In cooperation with DEZA Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Berne, Switzerland Venue Montforthaus Feldkirch Kultur- und Kongress-Zentrum Leonhardsplatz 3 A-6803 Feldkirch www.fkh.at/cv/index.php Program Coordination and Enrolment for all countries outside Switzerland Prof. Dr. Edmund Lengfelder Strahlenbiologisches Institut der LMU Schillerstraße 42 D-80336 Munich Email: Conference Office and Enrolments from Switzerland Tschernobyl 2006 Feldkirch Postfach CH-8501 Frauenfeld Email: tschernobyl2006@gmx.net The conference is certified as further medical training course by: Österreichische Ärztekammer, Schweizer Gesellschaft für Radioonkologie und Strahlentherapie, Schweizer Gesellschaft für Nuklearmedizin, Schweizer Gesellschaft der Fachärztinnen und Fachärzte für Prävention und Gesundheitswesen, Schweizer Gesellschaft für Allgemeinmedizin. ************************************************************ 5/2001: Chernobyl's children The children of people exposed to low doses of ionising radiation show very high levels of DNA damage. A team led by Hava Weinberg at the University of Haifa, Israel, studied the families of men who helped in the clean-up operation after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in 1986. ----- Surprisingly, they found seven times more mutations in the DNA of the children born after the accident, compared to those born before it, and compared to a group of children who were not exposed to any radiation from Chernobyl. The team had expected only a two-fold increase in the mutation rate. More at: http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999719 Related stories: (links) Long term, low-level exposure to radiation creates many mutations in plants (04/10/2001) Mutation rate doubled in Chernobyl's children (27/04/1996) Correspondence about this story should be directed to latestnews@newscientist.com +++++++++ Also from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1319000/1319386.stm Tuesday, 8 May, 2001, UK Chernobyl children show low radiation changes Fifteen years on, the Soviet legacy remains uncertain By BBC News Online's environment correspondent Alex Kirby Scientists say there is evidence that low radiation doses can cause multiple changes in human DNA, that are passed on to future generations. |
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