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Fed: Balkans veterans to give samples in depleted uranium plan
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AAP General News (Australia)
01-21-2001
Fed: Balkans veterans to give samples in depleted uranium plan
By Karen Polglaze and Denis Peters
CANBERRA, Jan 21 AAP - Australian soldiers who served in the Balkans will be asked
for blood and urine samples under a plan announced today to deal with their possible exposure
to depleted uranium.
And aid agency CARE Australia, which had about 30 aid workers stationed in the Balkans
at various times, is also considering the risk its staff may have been exposed to.
Concern over the possible effects of exposure to depleted uranium have mounted ...
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