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Health

Denmark stocks up on iodine pills to bolster nuclear emergency plan

FILE PHOTO: People walk past a dragon with depiction of Russia's President Vladimir Putin in its mouth in a pond in Helsinge, Denmark, April 4, 2022. Ritzau Scanpix/Mads Claus Rasmussen via REUTERS

Denmark's Health Agency, concerned by the war in Ukraine, will buy 2 million iodine tablets to protect people in the event of a nuclear accident close to the Nordic country, it said on Monday.

Iodine is considered a way of protecting the body against conditions such as thyroid cancer in case of radioactive exposure, and worries about nuclear incidents in Ukraine have prompted stockpiling across Europe.

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