Early infant mortality in West Germany before and after Chernobyl.

G Lüning, J Scheer, M Schmidt, H Ziggel

Author Information

G Lüning: Physics Department, Universität Bremen, West Germany.

PMID: 2572806 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(89)91091-x

Early infant mortality rates in West Germany were plotted for regions with different radioactive burdens following the Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion in April, 1986. In all regions, the logarithms of the mortality rates fitted a linear model between 1975 and 1985, but from May, 1986, immediately after the accident, there was a striking deviation from the model in areas with greatest radioactive fallout.

Accidents

Germany, West

Humans

Infant

Infant Mortality

Infant, Newborn

Models, Statistical

Nuclear Reactors

Time Factors

USSR

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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