TSA is rapidly rolling out hundreds of new full-body imaging scanners to our nation’s airports.
A number of individuals and US and international agencies are calling for limitations on their use due to health concerns, specifically radiation risks.
Travelers that have been identified as at risk are:
• travelers over 65 years of age,
• children and adolescents,
• pregnant women,
• females at risk of breast cancer due to defects in DNA repair mechanisms &
• immunocompromised individuals such as HIV and cancer patients.
One group of concerned scientists from the University of California San Francisco, including dermatologists and cancer experts, state “there is good reason to believe that these scanners will increase the risk of cancer to children and other vulnerable populations.”
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