Leukemia, called by medical experts a disease which still poses “many unanswered questions” to scientists, affects the Jewish population of Israel and Jews in New York City more often than it touches other sections of the world population, a study by the World Health Organization disclosed here today. Leukemia is a form of cancer.
According to the WHO study, mortality from leukemia is high in the white population in the United States, in Denmark, and among Israeli Jews. The disease was also shown by the study to occur twice as often among New York Jewish residents than it does among Protestants and Roman Catholics in New York.
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