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Posted on 12/25/2011 6:35:16 PM PST by LucyT
Impact Seen As Roughly Comparable to Radiation-Related Deaths After Chernobyl; Infants Are Hardest Hit, With Continuing Research Showing Even Higher Possible Death Count
An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, according to a major new article in the December 2011 edition of the International Journal of Health Services.
This is the first peer-reviewed study published in a medical journal documenting the health hazards of Fukushima.Authors Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman note that their estimate of 14,000 excess U.S. deaths in the 14 weeks after the Fukushima meltdowns is comparable to the 16,500 excess deaths in the 17 weeks after the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986.
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Just six days after the disastrous meltdowns struck four reactors at Fukushima on March 11, scientists detected the plume of toxic fallout had arrived over American shores.
Subsequent measurements by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found levels of radiation in air, water, and milk hundreds of times above normal across the U.S.
The highest detected levels of Iodine-131 in precipitation in the U.S. were as follows (normal is about 2 picocuries I-131 per liter of water): Boise, ID (390); Kansas City (200); Salt Lake City (190); Jacksonville, FL (150); Olympia, WA (125); and Boston, MA (92).
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not believable.
Shorly after the disaster government was touting its safe readings of radiation on the West Coast. You could go on line and get readings. Radiation was found in milk in Washington state and all the public information on radiation readings stopped.
“”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.”
So if flu increases, is it because of Japanese radiation?
So is this tripe from a blog, pr newswire, or an actual medical journal? Make up your mind.
14,000 people die every day just from Global Warming alone. [/s]
Thank you for posting this.
!4,000 deaths in 14 weeks, they have names?
Yes FR doesn’t have enough insane posts.
They could tell you but then they’d have to kill you.
This reminds me of the Shill I saw the other day on the PBS News Hour who said that hundreds of thousands of people were suffering due to powerplant pollution (kids w/asthma, people unable to work, etc). Of course, no one challenged any of these statements.
Hey, check it out! Some grist for Know-it-all Nadine’s mill! She’s bound to post something on this for DUFU.
Pffft! A fraction of the second hand smoke deaths.
This is sheer nonsense, and either represents faulty statistical techniques or is an example of misreporting. The authors are utterly unable to pinpoint even a single death in the Unitd States as resulting from the Fukushima meltdown.
Why? Because there weere none.
If researchers went through ALL the death certificates issued in the United States for the 14 weeks subsequent to the Fukushima incident, they would not find even one listing radiation poisoning from Fukushima as the cause of death.
What we have here is an example of the snowball fallacy. If 10,000,000 snowballs thrown at one person would result in one death, then 10,000,000 snowballs thrown at 10,000,000 people will also result in one death. This kind of thing makes a joke of statistics.
The Canadians know they are basically downwind from Fukushima.
Brought to you by the Dept. of Pulling Numbers Out of Our Anterior (PNOOA). Also servicing..uh..serving the EPA, Justice Dept., and White House.
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