radiation poisoning

…But anyway, so Satomu does, of course, have radiation poisoning, but he does survive and he eventually goes on to become a public speaker, speaking out against the use of atomic weapons. And he actually lived a long life after that. He lived to be 93. And then, sadly, he died of cancer, likely related to being in two atomic bomb blasts.…

…Maria and the others were not suffering from a tropical disease or any of the other things that doctors first thought. They were experiencing massive radiation poisoning, and the lesions they had developed were radiation burns. The handful of powder that Devayer found was enough to make more than 200 people extremely ill and place thousands more in danger.…