[ RadSafe ] Fwd: [New post] Proper research urgently needed into medical effects of Japan's nuclear meltdowns

[Roger Helbig]

Janette Sherman claimed to have measured increased radioactivity on
9/11 as proof of some 9/11 Truther (notably Douglas Lind Rokke and
followers) claims that the Pentagon was hit by a depleted uranium
tipped missile, after that, she "edited", the NY Academy of Sciences
book on Chernobyl that dramatically overestimated the medical effects
of that disaster - now, she and Mangano, who needs no introduction to
RADSAFE list members, are calling for "proper research".  Most
interesting.

Roger Helbig

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Christina MacPherson posted: "Why New Studies Are Needed Now! The
Fukushima Health Crisis
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/01/the-fukushima-health-crisis/ by
JOSEPH MANGANO and JANETTE SHERMAN Over 3 years since the Fukushima
nuclear disaster, there is virtually no health research "
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Proper research urgently needed into medical effects of Japan's
nuclear meltdowns

by Christina MacPherson
Why New Studies Are Needed Now! The Fukushima Health Crisis
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/01/the-fukushima-health-crisis/ by
JOSEPH MANGANO and JANETTE SHERMAN Over 3 years since the Fukushima
nuclear disaster, there is virtually no health research being
conducted or released on harm to the Japanese.  An April report by a
UN committee tried to sweep the
issue under the rug, predicting any harmful effects of the catastrophe
is "unlikely."

The UN panel made a very broad assumption about the worst nuclear
catastrophe in history (or worst since Chernobyl) - and did this
BEFORE research is done. However, a local health study raises alarm
bells.  Fukushima Medical University found 46% of local children have
a pre-cancerous nodule or cyst, and 130 have thyroid cancer, vs. 3
expected.  Incredibly, the University corrupts science by asserting
the meltdown played no role in these high figures.

But Japanese studies must go far beyond childhood thyroid diseases.
Japan isn't the only site to study, as the fallout from the meltdown
spread across the northern hemisphere.

In 2011, we estimated 13,983 excess U.S. deaths occurred in the 14
weeks after Fukushima, when fallout levels were highest - roughly the
same after Chernobyl in 1986.  We used only a sample of deaths
available at that time, and cautioned not to conclude that fallout
caused all of these deaths.

Final figures became available this week.  The 2010-2011 change in
deaths in the four months after Fukushima was +2.63%, vs. +1.54% for
the rest of the year.  This difference translates to 9,158 excess
deaths - not an exact match for the 13,983 estimate, but a substantial
spike nonetheless.

Again, without concluding that only Fukushima caused these deaths,
some interesting patterns emerged.  The five Pacific and West Coast
states, with the greatest levels of Fukushima fallout in the U.S., had
an especially large excess.  So did the five neighboring states
(Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Utah), which received the next
highest levels.

Most of the spring 2011 mortality increase were people over 80.  Many
of these elderly were in frail health; one possibility is that the
added exposure to radioactive poison sped the dying process.

Fukushima radiation is the same as fallout from atom bomb explosions,
releasing over 100 chemicals not found in nature.  The radioactive
chemicals enter the body as a result of precipitation that gets into
the food chain.  Once in the body, these particles harm or kill cells,
leading to disease or death.

Once-skeptical health officials now admit even low doses of radiation
are harmful.  Studies showed X-rays to pregnant women's abdomens
raised the risk of the child dying of cancer, ending the practice.
Bomb fallout from Nevada caused up to 212,000 Americans to develop
thyroid cancer.  Nuclear weapons workers are at high risk for a large
number of cancers.

Rather than the UN Committee making assumptions based on no research,
medical research on changes in Japanese disease and death rates are
needed - now, in all parts of Japan.  Similar studies should be done
in nations like Korea, China, eastern Russia, and the U.S.  Not
knowing Fukushima's health toll only raises the chance that such a
disaster will be repeated in the future.

Joseph Mangano is Executive Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project.

Janette D. Sherman MD is an internist and toxicologist, and editor of
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the
Environme

Christina MacPherson | August 2, 2014 at 6:22 am | Categories:
Fukushima 2014, health, Japan | URL: http://wp.me/phgse-hOO

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