I live in the same household as someone who has a urine sample result showing elevated Polonium -210 levels. What is the risk to my health?
Normal social and household contact with people who may have elevated Polonium-210 levels in their urine are not a risk to others if good hygiene practices are followed. Only a tiny amount of Polonium -210 is excreted in body fluids and even then you would only be at risk of harm if you ingested the polonium-210. Polonium-210 on the surface of the body can be removed by washing or by putting clothes through a normal cycle in a washing machine. Normal hygiene practices such as regular changes of clothes, washing dishes, cleaning toilets wearing rubber gloves and disposing of cloths afterwards will remove any residual contamination.
