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Article: Childhood leukemia, military aviation facilities, and population mixing.(Perspectives / Correspondence)
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- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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In a recent article on the striking cluster of childhood leukemia in 2000-2001 near the Fallon Naval Air Station in Nevada, Steinmaus et al. (2004) referred to the potential relevance of rural-urban population mixing. The population-mixing hypothesis was generated by the observation of excesses of childhood leukemia in two remote and isolated areas in Great Britain that had experienced influxes of significant numbers of workers as a result of the construction and operation of two large nuclear facilities (Kinlen 1988). Such mixing will increase the level of contacts between susceptible (more prevalent in rural areas) and infected individuals, promoting localized ...