From Deseret News archives:
CDC kills fallout study
The study has rechecked about 1,300 of 4,000 former students who lived in southwestern Utah and eastern Nevada, plus a control group of Arizona residents.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based in Atlanta, ended the program.
"CDC does not have the financial resources available to continue the project," agency spokesman John Florence told the Deseret Morning News. "It's a funding issue."
Notification of the study's halt came in a March 21 letter from Michael A. McGeehin, director of the CDC Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, to Dr. Joseph L. Lyon, a University of Utah researcher who has been heading the investigation.
Lyon said he is loath to use the word cover-up, but it seems the federal government does not want to know about health effects of fallout on American citizens. Still, "That's the only interpretation I can place on it," he said.
Asked how often the CDC pulls funding in the middle of a major study, Lyon said, "I've never known it to happen before. I haven't done a survey there, but it's the first time I've heard" about such a thing happening.
In 1993, a new study by Lyon and colleagues found radioactivity from the detonations increased the incidence of thyroid tumors 3.4 times over the expected rate among schoolchildren who were exposed to the highest doses.
That study, published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, examined the children when they were adults. They had been checked by federal researchers between 1965 and 1970. The federal researchers had not found any connection. However, the 1993 study showed 56 children had thyroid nodules. Of those, 11 were benign tumors and eight were malignancies.
The latest study was an attempt to re-examine those residents. They were in grades six through 12 in the Washington County School District in 1965. Some scientists suspect health effects may develop slowly for thyroid disease and that there may be lifelong risk.
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