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About the only thing that can be done in cases of radiation poisoning is to treat symptoms as they appear and wait. Depending on the dosage the patient will either recover or die. Proper treatment of symptoms increases the chance of recovery at lower dosages, but at high dosages do nothing but temporarily reduce pain and suffering prior to the patient's unavoidable death.

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