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Are the body scanners at airports dangerous for health?
Baltimore, USA - Some 315 of them are currently in use in the US
US scientists have warned that the full-body, graphic-image X-ray scanners being used to screen passengers and airline crews at airports around the world may be unsafe. "They say the risk is minimal, but statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays", Dr Michael Love, who runs an X-ray lab at the department of biophysics and biophysical chemistry at Johns Hopkins University...
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1122876
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency