As the third anniversary of the disaster approached, Moscow News reported from a collective farm in the Zhitomir region of Ukraine, forty kilometers west of the Exclusion Zone, where radioactive hot spots of strontium 90 and cesium 137 had been discovered. Farmers in the area had observed a steep rise in the number of birth defects in their livestock since the accident, describing piglets with froglike eyes and malformed skulls, and calves born without legs, eyes, or heads. One member of a team visiting from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev told the press their findings were
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