[ RadSafe ] Fukushima radiation-related deaths from fish in Pacific

[Roger Helbig]

This is preposterous claim about cancer deaths from eating Pacific
fish, but it is still circulating widely as if it were from some
genuine scientific body.   They appear to be trying to enlist
fishermen and women to the cause by putting them out of business
first.

Roger Helbig

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Christina MacPherson posted: "Physician on Cancer Estimates: Epidemic
of Fukushima radiation-related deaths from fish in Pacific may have
started — “Vast implications for human health” — “I eat so much
salmon… I’m vulnerable”
http://enenews.com/physician-on-cancer-calculations-epidemi"

Fukushima radiation-related deaths from fish in Pacific

by Christina MacPherson

Physician on Cancer Estimates: Epidemic of Fukushima radiation-related
deaths from fish in Pacific may have started — “Vast implications for
human health” — “I eat so much salmon… I’m vulnerable”
http://enenews.com/physician-on-cancer-calculations-epidemic-of-fukushima-radiation-related-deaths-from-fish-in-pacific-may-have-started-vast-implications-for-human-health-i-eat-so-much-salmon-im-vulne
Title: Fish data belie Japan’s claims on Fukushima
Source: Georgia Straight (Canada)
Author: Alex Roslin
Date: Oct. 2, 2013

[...] About 800 people worldwide will get cancer from radiation due to
Fukushima in fish eaten to date [through mid-July 2013], according to
Georgia Straight calculations. The Straight results relied on a widely
used cancer-risk formula developed by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency as well as radiation levels in 33,000 fish tested by
the Japanese Fisheries Agency. [...]

Two nuclear experts who saw the Straight’s figures said the real
cancer toll could be 100 times higher—or 80,000 cancers. [...]

Erica Frank, a Vancouver MD, was taken aback when told the Straight’s
results. “How can a person do anything but gasp?” she said in a phone
interview. “That’s horrible. This is the beginning of a potential
epidemic of radiation-related deaths from fish in the Pacific. It has
vast implications for human health.”

Frank is a professor of population and public health in UBC’s faculty
of medicine [...] She said that after Fukushima, she decided to stop
eating fish from Asia. She is especially concerned about impacts on
B.C. migratory salmon. “I eat so much salmon. I love salmon; I am
vulnerable.” [...]

See also: Physician: The salmon migrate through radioactive plumes
coming off Fukushima, then we catch them on Canada's shores --
Concerned about lack of testing -- Officials "rely on Japan for test
results" (VIDEO)

Christina MacPherson | October 4, 2013 at 3:56 am | Categories: 2
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