WORLD IN BRIEF : SPAIN : Patients Exposed to Lethal Radiation
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Twenty-seven cancer patients were accidentally exposed to lethal doses of radiation in a hospital in Zaragoza, Spain, and most are expected to die from the effects. Three already have died. A judge is investigating the equipment malfunction that ran over a 10-day period in December. Similar accidents elsewhere have been attributed to computer software error, a faulty accelerator and a mathematical error by a doctor.
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