[the_af]

Interesting...

... because I was just reading about Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease (because of his recent movie "Still") and apparently he and two other people who worked in his earliest TV show (where he was a secondary character) got early onset Parkinson's, and he claims this is a mere coincidence, not enough to consider this a relevant "cluster" of Parkinson's.

In both cases it's three people who worked closely together catching a relatively rare disease. I wonder if it's relevant for Tarkovsky, given that Michael J. Fox thinks it wasn't relevant for him...

[jFriedensreich]

well the main difference seems to be that some crew in stalker stated they had the sense of being poisoned in that dust and fume cloud and also developed accute allergic reactions. Its still all just based on the statements of the sound technician, i did not find interviews with other crew that said the same, but i'm sure there are some interview transcriptions in russian print somewhere. In the end the best source would probably be the estonian death statistics for cancer increases closer to those areas or further downstream the same river.