And it wasn't just iodine. There were heavy metals, too, which we weren't told about for nearly a year. And all the children, whether they're in the clean or the dirty zone have all got lymphodenitis, that is, swelling of the lymphatic glands. While a diagnosis of pathology of lymphatic tissue was made on the cases of 4 young patients in 1985, in 1987 there were 221. In just the first quarter of 1989, we have had 430 of them.
People now cope very poorly with even the slightest infections.
They recover very slowly from pneumonia. Oncological conditions are on the increase. In my department at the moment there are eight people with cancer of the mouth. These people are in terrible condition. We can't even look them straight in the eye.