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• Health Effects of DU 2006

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  Gretel Munroe
  This paper is about depleted uranium, and the harm it may cause to human beings primarily as a result of its use in weapons. It deals with exposure dose, basic biological considerations and recent research. To date research has been done mostly in animals and cellular studies and to a far lesser extent in humans. The paper discusses the results of fact-finding missions of the UN Environmental Program in the Balkans. It also deals with Iraq, largely post-war 2003. There is controversy now about DU causing cancers and other illnesses; if we wait the 10-30 year latency period of lung cancer, for example, to resolve this issue, irreparable harm may already have been done to people.