Chernobyl Accident Appendix 2 (Updated November 2009) The health
effects of the Chernobyl accident have been the subject of
unprecedented study by health professionals and unprecedented
speculation and exaggeration by parts of the media. This
Appendix summarises the following authoritative and expert
assessments of the situation: - The 2006 report of the World
Health Organization (WHO), Health Effects of the Chernobyl
Accident and Special Health Care Programmes a . - Exposures and
effects of the Chernobyl accident, Annex J of the 2000 Report of
the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic
Radiation to the General Assembly b. - Estimated Long Term
Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident, Background Paper 3 of
the April 1996 conference in Vienna, One Decade After Chernobyl
c. - Lessons of Chernobyl - with particular reference to thyroid
cancer by Zbigniew Jaworowski, former chairman of the United
Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic
Radiationd. Number of deaths Apart from t