Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "34 Years Ago, Something Terrible Happened In Brazil. This Is What You Need To Know" video.

  1. Maybe they thought the swollen hand was unrelated to the "food poisoning", and that it was probably a scratch or something that got badly infected? He did work at a junkyard, after all.
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  2. 2:38 - External-beam therapy is also known as teletherapy, if you want help beating your friends at Scrabble.
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  3. Don't newer hospitals use accelerators rather than radioactive sources for radiotherapy, for more-or-less precisely this reason (the radiation goes away when you turn the machine off, and you don't have to deal with highly-radioactive materials if the hospital shuts down; plus, you don't have to periodically replace a decaying source)?
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  4. Huh. I'd always thought the Goiânia accident was fairly-well-known.
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