[ RadSafe ] 14, 000 US Deaths Linked to Radiation Leaks at Damaged FukushimaNuclear Reactor in Japan

[Steven Dapra]

Dec. 19

         Did Mangano conduct the study?  The linked article is 
conveniently vague about who wrote it.  Mangano may merely be 
spouting off about someone else's claims.  (The "reviewers" are 
probably Busby's peers.)

Steven Dapra


At 05:36 PM 12/19/2011, you wrote:
>I wait on pins and needles form Mr. Mangano to identify the common
>characteristics of those who died because of exposure to Fukushima,
>versus those who died from other causes.  I will stipulate there might
>well be a couple of deaths due to stress brought about by such things as
>that cherry-picked, fraudulent, piece of trash saying infant mortality
>on the West Coast went up due to Fukushima, but if Mr. Mangano is going
>to convince me, he needs something harder to manipulate than a bag of
>undefined numbers.
>
>And perhaps the people who "reviewed" Mr. Mangano's work are his peers,
>but I doubt they are mine.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
>[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Cary Renquist
>Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 4:15 PM
>To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) MailingList
>Subject: [ RadSafe ] 14,000 US Deaths Linked to Radiation Leaks at
>Damaged FukushimaNuclear Reactor in Japan
>
>
>" Findings are important to the current debate of whether to build new
>reactors, and how long to keep aging ones in operation," said
>Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, MPH MBA. Researchers found that the death
>rates in the 14 weeks following the radiation's arrival in the United
>States rose 4.46 percent compared to the same time period in 2010."
>
>
>http://j.mp/uVc0hE
>
>If true, I guess that acute death after a chest x-ray must be quite
>common.
>
>... a new peer-reviewed study blames elevated levels of radiation for
>14,000 deaths in the United States - and researchers involved in the
>study are still wondering how far the death toll will climb. They hope
>this startling discovery will show nations worldwide that the risk of
>radiation poisoning is not limited to the community immediately
>surrounding the site of the disaster.
>Now researchers say that there could be 4,000 additional deaths due to
>the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster - the worst nuclear
>disaster since Chernobyl - and infants are the demographic most
>affected. With their rapidly multiplying cells and growth spurts,
>infants are extremely susceptible to radiation poisoning. "Based on our
>continuing research, the actual death count here may be as high as
>18,000, with influenza and pneumonia, which were up five-fold in the
>period in question as a cause of death. Deaths are seen across all ages,
>but we continue to find that infants are hardest hit because their
>tissues are rapidly multiplying, they have undeveloped immune systems,
>and the doses of radioisotopes are proportionally greater than for
>adults," said Internist and toxicologist Janette Sherman, MD.
>Prior to this peer-reviewed study, no studies on the effect of the
>radiation leaks at Fukushima Daiichi have been made public. "This study
>of Fukushima health hazards is the first to be published in a scientific
>journal. It raises concerns, and strongly suggests that health studies
>continue, to understand the true impact of Fukushima in Japan and around
>the world. Findings are important to the current debate of whether to
>build new reactors, and how long to keep aging ones in operation," said
>Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, MPH MBA. Researchers found that the death
>rates in the 14 weeks following the radiation's arrival in the United
>States rose 4.46 percent compared to the same time period in 2010.
>
>
>I guess my time on this earth is now limited -- having just spent half
>an hour in our lab, I probably received at least 0.5 mrem which is
>likely orders of magnitude higher than any received in the US from
>Fukushima...
>
>Farewell,
>Cary
>
>---
>Cary Renquist
>crenquist at isotopeproducts.com or cary.renquist at ezag.com