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Chemotherapy Patients Set Off Subway Alarms

Posted by chrisd on from the oops dept.

dave writes "Recently, cities such as New York and elsewhere have been installing radiation detectors in subways as an anti-terror precaution. However, as reported in New Scientist, patients who are undergoing radiation treatment are setting off the alarms. From the article, "a 34-year-old patient who had been treated with radioactive iodine for Graves disease, a thyroid disorder, returned to their clinic three weeks later complaining he had been strip-searched twice in Manhattan subway stations.""

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  1. Hhahahahahah by Ghostx13 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That would totally suck. On the other hand you could dress up for halloween as the simpsons character "RadioActiveMan", and have a neat story to go along with it. Of course I don't think it would score you any chicks.

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