ZAGREB, Feb 1 (Hina) - Dr. Dragan Kubelka, head of the Croatian Institute for the Protection Against Radiation and a member of the Health Ministry's commission that toured the mountains of Papuk and Psunj (some 100 kilometres east of
Zagreb), on Thursday said the values of the assessed radiation were within the usual values in Croatia. Thus Dr. Kubelka refuted allegations of the press which claimed that the increased radiation was the cause for anomalies of local animals. The media has lately again published reports on green eggs laid by hens on Papuk and Psunj, on a chicken with three wings and four legs, on a calf with seven legs and pigs with six or eight legs, or two mouths. The press linked all those unusual appearances with radiation in the area. Kubelka told Hina such reports ignored the fact that the described anomalies could appear within some percentage among all living creatures and "only i
ZAGREB, Feb 1 (Hina) - Dr. Dragan Kubelka, head of the Croatian
Institute for the Protection Against Radiation and a member of the
Health Ministry's commission that toured the mountains of Papuk and
Psunj (some 100 kilometres east of Zagreb), on Thursday said the
values of the assessed radiation were within the usual values in
Croatia.
Thus Dr. Kubelka refuted allegations of the press which claimed
that the increased radiation was the cause for anomalies of local
animals.
The media has lately again published reports on green eggs laid by
hens on Papuk and Psunj, on a chicken with three wings and four legs,
on a calf with seven legs and pigs with six or eight legs, or two
mouths. The press linked all those unusual appearances with
radiation in the area.
Kubelka told Hina such reports ignored the fact that the described
anomalies could appear within some percentage among all living
creatures and "only increased frequency of such phenomena can
indicate the presence of some mutagenic factors. Radiation is only
one of possible causes of such phenomena," he explained.
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