Response to the "Letter to the Editor" by Alfred Körblein, "Short Term Increase in Low Birthweight Babies After Fukushima"

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Journal Environ Health

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Environmental Health

Date 2020 Nov 26

PMID 33239024

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Hagen Scherb

Keiji Hayashi

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Response to the "Letter to the Editor" by Alfred Körblein, "Short term increase in low birthweight babies after Fukushima".

Scherb H, Hayashi K Environ Health. 2020; 19(1):125.

PMID: 33239024 PMC: 7687820. DOI: 10.1186/s12940-020-00675-x.

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