Children's illnesses linked to Russian rocket station

Children that live close to the world's oldest space launch station are suffering from high rates of hormonal problems and blood disorders, a recent journal suggests. As Nature http://www.nature.com reports, rates of disease close to Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan have more than doubled. Siberian researchers pinpoint the cause of the problems to unburned hydrazine fuel, which is released during the early stages of take-off. The study was originally rejected by the Russian space agency but leaked to Nature magazine.