And now for something weird...

nsaspook

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MrSalts

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Whales evolved from ground-dwelling ungulates. Likely from a similar creature that evolved into pigs, cattle, deer and hippos. The meat is much more likely to taste like "red" meat from one of those mammals than like "chicken?" - unless a person has lost his/her taste from something like long-Covid or brain damage. In that case, everything might be described as tasting like chicken.
 

cmartinez

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His mother then took the capsule from the trouser pocket, and placed it in a kitchen drawer. Later that month, "the mother of the survivor, came to live in the house. At that time she noted for the first time the blackening of the glass tumblers that were kept in the piece of furniture where the capsule was."

Blackening of glass has been described in other reports of radiation exposure. However odd it might have been, it did not alert any of the family as to what was happening.
 

SamR

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That sounds bizarre. Here we have incidents of patients who have had tiny radiation doses in treatment (like the one they give for a stress test or dye for imaging) setting off the roadside radiation detectors placed by Homeland Security along our interstate highways. Much less losing a high dosage source! Unbelievable...
 

cmartinez

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That sounds bizarre. Here we have incidents of patients who have had tiny radiation doses in treatment (like the one they give for a stress test or dye for imaging) setting off the roadside radiation detectors placed by Homeland Security along our interstate highways. Much less losing a high dosage source! Unbelievable...
You have to take into account that this happened in the 60's, and also back then regulations regarding radioactive materials used for medical purposes in Mexico were extremely lax.
 

MrSalts

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You have to take into account that this happened in the 60's, and also back then regulations regarding radioactive materials used for medical purposes in Mexico were extremely lax.
The FDA allowed Co60 gamma radiation to sterilize donated red blood cells and plasma for transfusions since the 1960s - yet the USDA only allowed Co60 to sterilize strawberries since about 2008. The Red Cross usually brings donated blood to a local university chemistry ir physics lab with a Co60 source like the one shown in the Australian image on one of the links above.
 
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