Bradley may have contracted the disease while on assingment for CBS News "60 Minutes".
November 10, 2006 (Press Release) --
Nov. 10, 2006 — Ed Bradley, one of television's most prominent African-American journalists, died of complications from leukemia Thursday. He was 65 years old.
While reporting for CBS in Vietnam, Bradley was once injured in a mortar attack, narrowly escaping death.
Bradley was diagnosed with leukemia two years ago but was in remission. He apparently took a turn for the worse two weeks ago, contracting pneumonia and succumbing to the disease.
Questions remain as to how Bradley could have contracted a disease that is rare among African-Americans. (Wendy Hu, MD, Consulting Staff, Department of Hematology/Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Huntington Memorial Medical Center.)
It is believed that Bradley may have acquired Leukemia while on assignment in Russia, doing a story on the devastating effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in a town in Kazakhstan,
Bradley may been convinced by the shows producers that it was safe to enter Chernobyl based on a common misconception that only about 31 people died as a result of the Chernobyl disaster therefore making not as dangerous as reported. However a little known fact about this disaster is that, a high dose of radiation can be received over a short period of time. Approximately 134 power station workers were exposed to extremely high doses of radiation directly after the accident. About 31 of these people died within 3
Months. Another 25,000 “liquidators” – the soldiers and firefighters who were
Involved in clean up operations – have died since the disaster of diseases such as
Lung cancer, leukemia, and cardiovascular disease.
As a result of the disaster in Chernobyl unstable radioactive elements iodine-131, caesium-137, strontium-90 and plutonium-239 has been released in the air do their damage when they are spread via inhaled dust particles, deposited in the
Earth by rainfall, or enter the food change through plants and animals. When the human
Body is exposed to these elements, free radicals impair cellular function and may damage
DNA.
As a totalitarian government the Soviet Union forced many young soldiers to assist in the cleanup of the Chernobyl accident, apparently without sufficient protective clothing and insufficient explanation of the danger involved.
Over 650,000 liquidators helped in the cleanup of the Chernobyl disaster in the first year. Many of those who worked as liquidators became ill and according to some estimates about 8,000 to 10,000 have died from the radioactive dose they received at the Chernobyl Power Plant. This group apparently includes those who built the containment building over the destroyed reactor No. 4 which is called the SARCOPHAGUS
The death of the CBS veteran, one of the first blacks to gain a foothold in network television, shocked many of his colleagues who knew he had undergone heart bypass surgery in 2003, but were unaware he had been diagnosed with leukemia in recent years.
Bradley had been in the office just two weeks ago, wrapping up work on a piece about an explosion at a Texas oil refinery. That story ran Oct. 29, the same day he was hospitalized at Mount Sinai Hospital because of complications of leukemia, which had been in remission until the last few months.
While reporting for CBS in Vietnam, Bradley was once injured in a mortar attack, narrowly escaping death.
Bradley was diagnosed with leukemia two years ago but was in remission. He apparently took a turn for the worse two weeks ago, contracting pneumonia and succumbing to the disease.
Questions remain as to how Bradley could have contracted a disease that is rare among African-Americans. (Wendy Hu, MD, Consulting Staff, Department of Hematology/Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Huntington Memorial Medical Center.)
It is believed that Bradley may have acquired Leukemia while on assignment in Russia, doing a story on the devastating effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in a town in Kazakhstan,
Bradley may been convinced by the shows producers that it was safe to enter Chernobyl based on a common misconception that only about 31 people died as a result of the Chernobyl disaster therefore making not as dangerous as reported. However a little known fact about this disaster is that, a high dose of radiation can be received over a short period of time. Approximately 134 power station workers were exposed to extremely high doses of radiation directly after the accident. About 31 of these people died within 3
Months. Another 25,000 “liquidators” – the soldiers and firefighters who were
Involved in clean up operations – have died since the disaster of diseases such as
Lung cancer, leukemia, and cardiovascular disease.
As a result of the disaster in Chernobyl unstable radioactive elements iodine-131, caesium-137, strontium-90 and plutonium-239 has been released in the air do their damage when they are spread via inhaled dust particles, deposited in the
Earth by rainfall, or enter the food change through plants and animals. When the human
Body is exposed to these elements, free radicals impair cellular function and may damage
DNA.
As a totalitarian government the Soviet Union forced many young soldiers to assist in the cleanup of the Chernobyl accident, apparently without sufficient protective clothing and insufficient explanation of the danger involved.
Over 650,000 liquidators helped in the cleanup of the Chernobyl disaster in the first year. Many of those who worked as liquidators became ill and according to some estimates about 8,000 to 10,000 have died from the radioactive dose they received at the Chernobyl Power Plant. This group apparently includes those who built the containment building over the destroyed reactor No. 4 which is called the SARCOPHAGUS
The death of the CBS veteran, one of the first blacks to gain a foothold in network television, shocked many of his colleagues who knew he had undergone heart bypass surgery in 2003, but were unaware he had been diagnosed with leukemia in recent years.
Bradley had been in the office just two weeks ago, wrapping up work on a piece about an explosion at a Texas oil refinery. That story ran Oct. 29, the same day he was hospitalized at Mount Sinai Hospital because of complications of leukemia, which had been in remission until the last few months.
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