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WHO Fukushima Report - Good And Bad News
Medical News Today ^ | 24 May 2012 | World Health Organization

Posted on 05/24/2012 8:53:55 AM PDT by J Aguilar

A World Health Organization (WHO) preliminary estimate report on the 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant found that human risk of cancer did not increase in most of the country, but that some infants in a nearby town who were exposed to radioactive iodine-131 may have a higher lifetime risk of developing thyroid cancer.

(Excerpt) Read more at medicalnewstoday.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Japan
KEYWORDS: fukushima; nuclear

1 posted on 05/24/2012 8:54:02 AM PDT by J Aguilar
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To: J Aguilar
Remarkably unexciting. Not that any of this will make headlines…
2 posted on 05/24/2012 9:19:52 AM PDT by cartan
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To: J Aguilar

according to the WHO, we all died three years ago from the bird flu.


3 posted on 05/24/2012 10:21:34 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: J Aguilar

No, really? Really?

Golly. I would have never known this without a cadre of international bureaucrats telling me... except I already did my own math and reached the same conclusion some time ago.

Pardon me whilst I go back to being wholly unconcerned.


4 posted on 05/24/2012 10:34:01 AM PDT by NVDave
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To: J Aguilar
Remember how all the lefties and the news agencies behaved over this disaster?

Nevermind that the main disaster was the tsunami and earthquake damage, not the Nuclear reactor.

5 posted on 05/24/2012 10:34:14 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: JohnBrowdie

ho ho ho ho ho

Indeed. Nevertheless I consider this a balanced report based on actual measured data and known statistic studies on health effects of radiation.


6 posted on 05/24/2012 10:35:32 AM PDT by J Aguilar (Fiat Justitia et ruat coelum)
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To: cartan

Is it any wonder that Americans are math & science illiterate? Government schools serve the government’s best interest, not the people’s.


7 posted on 05/27/2012 5:09:53 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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