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

Sat Aug 2 09:48:34 CDT 2014

More Christina MacPherson drivel.

http://tinyurl.com/kwmfdr9

 Jaro
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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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