http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=24012002-045045-5924r

Patients trigger subway radiation detector 

Published 1/28/2002 5:49 PM

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Patients who receive routine medical procedures using 
radioisotopes could
trip a new detection system in the Washington subway system designed to catch 
radioactive material
entering the Capitol's public transportation network.

After a routine bone scan, Alexandria, Va. resident and United Press International 
editor Laura Chatfield
said she was confronted by Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority 
police on her way
to work Jan. 23. Radiation detection equipment had picked up the low-level radioactive 
isotope medical
personnel had injected into her body earlier in the day. 

Implemented to prevent terrorists from releasing hazardous radioactive material into 
the subway system, the
detectors are catching cancer and other patients in their dragnet.

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Mecca, Utah, or NYC: february will be fun

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