Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST WR0xCo58. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. In Orkney and Shetland (the UK's northernmost islands), during World War II, local people were outnumbered by servicemen stationed there in case of a northern Invasion. Such rural-urban population mixing promotes contact between susceptible and Infected individuals. We compared childhood leukaemia mortality in wartime and postwar cohorts of Orkney and Shetland children. Childhood leukaemia Increased 3.6-fold, (p=0.001) In the wartime, but not in the postwar, cohort compared with national Scottish rates. These findings add to the evidence for infection as a cause of childhood leukaemia.
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