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Von: Aleksandar Stojsic <slavonac@primenet.com>
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Datum: Samstag, 3. April 1999 18:45
Betreff: SN170:afp: Air strikes can seriously damage your health
SALONIKA, Greece, April 3 (AFP) -
NATO air strikes can have serious effects on the health of residents of Balkan
and other countries of southern Europe, a specialist said.
Professor Christos Zerefos, head of the World Ozone Mapping Center, a department of the World Meteorological Organisation, said the effects of NATO bombs had already polluted several countries.
Zerefos said that dioxins and other cancer-causing substances released by the explosions and spread by rainfall threatened public health in Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy and Macedonia, as well as Yugoslavia, the target of the raids.
All these countries had been affected between March 25, the day after the North
Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) attacks began, and March 29, said Zerefos,
professor of atmosphere physics at
Salonika University.
The spring season meant that crops of fruit and vegetables would be contaminated, and fresh grass fed to livestock.
Continued attacks would seriously harm the quality of life in the region, Zerefos added, explaining that temperatures produced by a single bomb blast could reach 1,500 degrees Celsius.
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