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  • We had seen numerous photos in the museum of children who had become orpaned by the bomb (the children had been moved from the cities out to safe houses in the country to protect them from air raids), the disease called encephaly that many of the in-utero children were born with, and the story of Sadako Saski, who was exposed to the radiation (at 2) and 10 years later died of leukaemia.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • He ` s got micro-encephaly which is a brain abnormality.

    CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2009 2009

  • RA, I almost forgot to mention, due to the immune system problems, I got opportunisic bacterial spinal meningitis when I was 5, the brain encephaly, was very very sick, almost died, was on the downward spiral.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Templars and other Monastic Military Orders: 2007

  • And we're in the process of trying to determine whether it's due to the postoperative course or if it has to do with the encephaly (ph) that both boys have.

    CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2003 2003

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