Summary. Two hundred and eighty-nine children who had been educated in a kindergarten during 1983±92 and received continuous low-dose whole body gammairradiation from 60 Co-contaminated steel window frames in their classrooms were investigated for residual effects on their haematological tissues. Another 751 children, sex and age-matched, received similar but much lower exposure in an elementary school with classrooms built with contaminated steel rebars. The peripheral leucocytes of these children were examined 5±7 years after they had stopped using these irradiated classrooms. Children who received higher exposure in the kindergarten were shown to have a signi®cant decrease in total leucocytes and neutrophils and an increase in eosinophils. Moreover, they were shown to be at signi®cantly higher risk of developing relative leucopenia and neutropenia, but not lymphocytopenia, than those who received a lower exposure at the elementary school. Children from the kindergarten who had much higher exposure were shown to have a signi®cant lowering of total leucocytes and neutrophils, and an increase in eosinophils years after exposure. Residual adverse haematological effects on the exposed children are strongly suspected.
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