Professor plays down uranium ammo health fears

A leading British medical expert has cast doubt on a link between depleted uranium shells and leukaemia in soldiers who served in the Balkans.

Professor plays down uranium ammo health fears

A leading British medical expert has cast doubt on a link between depleted uranium shells and leukaemia in soldiers who served in the Balkans.

Professor Eric Wright, from the University of Dundee medical school, said it was "implausible" that the eight Italian soldiers who died of the disease had contracted it from the ammunition while serving in Kosovo.

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