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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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 Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:07 am Post subject: Radioactive woman flying from Seoul shuts down airport |
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,390382,00.html
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An airport terminal in Vladivostok, Russia was evacuated Thursday after a �radioactive� woman set off an alarm.
The woman had just arrived from a flight from Seoul, South Korea when a radiation alarm went off forcing security officers to shutdown the terminal, Interfax news agency reported.
The alarm was eventually called off when officials discovered the source of the scare was the woman. According to the news agency, she had just received radiation therapy.
The woman was released when South Korean doctors confirmed they had treated her with iodine-131, a radioactive isotope used in nuclear medicine, giving her a level of radioactivity 15 times greater than the norm.
"Iodine-131 is a short-lived isotope, so the passenger should be back to normal in a month," customs spokeswoman at Vladivostok airport told Interfax.
Iodine-131 is used to diagnose and treat cancers of the thyroid gland, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It�s produced commercially for medical use and industrial uses through nuclear fission. In medicine, iodine-131 comes in the form of capsules or liquid designed to be swallowed by patients, the CDC reported in its Web site
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:58 am Post subject: |
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I guess the doctors forgot to tell her not to fly for a month.
Or, maybe they did tell her and she jsut ignored them. |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:46 am Post subject: |
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| No where in the article does it say if she's Korean or Russain. |
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Kikomom
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: them thar hills--Penna, USA--Zippy is my kid, the teacher in ROK. You can call me Kiko
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:22 am Post subject: |
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| Good catch, Ajuma. |
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Matty
Joined: 13 Jun 2008
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Does it matter much if she's Korean or Russian?
I'd maybe guess she was Russian and went to Korea for the treatment, but then again who knows? But the story I guess isn't too dependant on it. |
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