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From: todd@islenet.UUCP (Todd Ogasawara)
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Subject: Re: xrays from CRTs
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Date: Tue, 29-May-84 01:15:38 EDT
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Page 15 of the 21 May 1984 issue of InfoWorld has a one paragraph mention of
an NIOSH investigation of "unusually high rates of miscarriages among workers
at two sites where video display terminals (VDTs) are usedd in large numbers."

miscarriages/pregnancies	site
24/48			United Airlines San Francisco res off.
 6/15			Southern Bell data proc. center/Atlanta
  (also 2 premature births, 1 still birth, 1 neonatal death)

Of course, it may be other environmental(job stress, chemical wastes, etc.)
factors that are really behind these unfortunate incidents.  Still, it does
make me wonder what is really happening to people (male & female) like us who
sit in front of a VDT for long hours.  Does anyone know how the followup
to the incidents mentioned above is going?

Todd Ogasawara -- University of Hawaii -- Dept. of Psychology
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