One of the doctors who helped treat victims of a recent mysterious explosion at a military test site in Russia was found to have a radioactive isotope in his body. The local health ministry blamed the trace amounts of the isotope on bad seafood.
Despite the doctor's exposure to patients from an area where a short-term radiation spike was recorded, the local health ministry blamed the trace amounts of the isotope on bad seafood."Cesium-137... has the feature of accumulating in fish, mushrooms, lichens, algae," the statement posted on the local government's website reads."With a certain degree of probability, we can assume that this element got into the human body through the products of food.
" Investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta later reported that two of the workers died from radiation poisoning. Reports claiming that dozens of medical workers were exposed to radiation have been circulating for a while. Several independent news outlets published anonymous accounts of doctors angered by the fact they were not warned about radiation and lacked basic protective gear.
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