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Originally Posted by gmw
Given that the girls also lived in the same area at the time they were employed, they had a wide range of things in common (or potentially in common). Work was not the only possibility, and even if it was work, it might not have been the radium.
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Yes, they would have had a wide range of things in common with one another AND with plenty of other young women who weren't getting mysterious diseases. The disease cluster was workplace related; other young women with whom they shared various characteristics were not becoming sick.
The sufferers were known to be working with a substance believed to be dangerous enough that the scientists in the labs took precautions. It wouldn't have taken a genius to see the link. As I said, causality might not have been established, but there was clearly an association with their work.