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Latest revision as of 17:49, 16 June 2015
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Template:Search infobox Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
The walking ghost phase of radiation poisoning is a period of apparent health, lasting for hours or days, following a dose of 10-50 sieverts of radiation. As its name would suggest, the walking ghost phase is followed by certain death.
Treatment
All current medical treatments are palliative, largely pain management.
Post-latent symptoms
Cause of death
A painful death, marked by delirium and coma, inevitably awaits any recipient of such a dose of radiation, between 2-10 days after the completion of the walking ghost phase of radiation poisoning.
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