Word: leucopenia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radar operators during the war were frequently worried men. They worked with novel transmitters which sent out powerful beams of little-known ultrashort waves. What effect might these have on human flesh and blood? Some servicemen feared alopecia (loss of hair) or leucopenia (loss of white corpuscles). But most of all they talked about sterility. A few demanded lead pants or jockstraps...
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