Walking ghost phase
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The walking ghost phase of radiation poisoning is a period of apparent health, lasting for hours or days, following a dose of 10–50 sieverts of radiation. As its name would suggest, the walking ghost phase is followed by certain death.
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[edit] Treatment
All current medical treatments are palliative, largely pain management.
[edit] Post-latent symptoms
[edit] Cause of death
A painful death, marked by delirium and coma, inevitably awaits any recipient of such a dose of radiation, between 2–10 days after the completion of the walking ghost phase of radiation poisoning.
