Baby put through airport x-ray
posted by David Pescovitz at 10:59:25 AM
A grandmother passing through security at LAX on Saturday put her
one-month-old grandson through the x-ray machine. According to the Los
Angeles Times, a TSA screener "noticed the outline of a baby" on the display
and quickly reversed the conveyor built. The baby was taken to a hospital
and fortunately received a clean bill of health. From the article:
Officials, who declined to release the 56-year-old woman's name, said
she spoke Spanish and apparently did not understand English.
She initially didn't want the baby transported to a hospital, but
security officials called paramedics and insisted that the child be examined
by a doctor...
"Rather than focus on the radiation dose, which is a small amount, we
need to focus on why this happened, so it doesn't happen again," said Dr.
James Borgstede, a diagnostic radiologist at Penrose-St. Francis Health
Systems in Colorado Springs, Colo., and president of the American College of
Radiology. "Human beings weren't meant to go through those things."
In the several seconds the baby spent in the machine, the doctor added,
he was exposed to as much radiation as he would naturally get from cosmic
rays - or high energy from outer space - in a day.
Link (Thanks, Jennifer Lum!)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-baby20dec20,0,6460373.story?coll=la-
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