The skin color of his face indicated erythema brought on by cutaneous radiation syndrome.
Then he gets a call from the medical examiner: a man with acute radiation syndrome has just landed in the hospital.
There were 28 deaths from acute radiation syndrome.
Among the seven observers, two suffered from acute radiation syndrome but recovered.
This effect is responsible for acute radiation syndrome, but these heavily damaged cells cannot become cancerous.
Curie later died of acute radiation syndrome, not cancer.
He died three weeks later, becoming the first known victim of lethal polonium-210-induced acute radiation syndrome.
Similar symptoms may appear months to years after exposure as chronic radiation syndrome when the dose rate is too low to cause the acute form.
Under the assumption, survivors of acute radiation syndrome face an increased risk developing cancer later in life.
Thousands of scientific experiments have been performed to study acute radiation syndrome in animals.