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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. Only in the US. by SmoothOperator · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm glad I live in Canada.

    Go ahead, mod me down.

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  2. Re:New Scientist by rusty0101 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sure, just ad the following lines to your host table:

    127.0.0.1 localhost
    127.0.0.127 www.newscientist.com ads.doubleclick.com

    Of course if you are using a proxy server, this won't work, but you should then already know how to block the site, or I can feel sorry for you. Next time around.

    -Rusty

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