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...inserted which can be filled with radioactive liquid or fitted with a solid, pinpoint source of radioactivity. Radioactive gold wire is built into hollow nylon sutures to be stitched into a tumor. For external radiation, frighteningly powerful amounts of atomic energy are being baked into little wafers of cobalt ("the poor man's radium...
Since the X-ray process was expensive, Bushland is now experimenting at Oak Ridge with radioactive cobalt, a cheap source of sterilizing radiation. Soon he plans to go south and hatch clouds of flies out of washtubs full of hamburger. One pound of hamburger, he figures, is good for 500 flies...
While they are still in the helpless pupal stage, the flies will be irradiated with cobalt. When they emerge as adults, they will be liberated in heavily infested districts. The females among them will do m damage to the cattle: they can lay no normal eggs. The males, sterile but still ambitious, will scour the country for fertile wild mates. But the females that they win will never lay fertile eggs. Bushland believes that "extensive use of this method will have a profoundly depressing effect on the screwworm fly population...
...Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario houses the first "Cobalt Bomb," medical science's newest weapon against
...Middle Ages, silver miners sickened and died of it. In the last century, cobalt and bismuth miners caught it. In the 1920s, the German government awarded compensation to the Schneeberg miners, and forbade them to work there more than two years in a row. Until the Reds took over, Schneeberger Krankheit affected only a score or so of miners a year. In the atomic age, the true nature of the illness has been revealed...