14,000 American Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor

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http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/medical-journal-article--14000-us-deaths-tied-to-fukushima-reactor-disaster-fallout-135859288.html

Medical Journal Article: 14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout

Impact Seen As Roughly Comparable to Radiation-Related Deaths After Chernobyl; Infants Are Hardest Hit, With Continuing Research Showing Even Higher Possible Death Count.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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.  The rise in reported deaths after Fukushima was largest among U.S. infants under age one.  The 2010-2011 increase for infant deaths in the spring was 1.8 percent, compared to a decrease of 8.37 percent in the preceding 14 weeks.

The IJHS article will be published Tuesday and will be available online as of 11 a.m. EST at http://www.radiation.org.

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).

[AquaMan]

Arrgh! Another good reason not to visit KC.

I wonder what OK got?

[Conan71]

It must suck to live such a paranoid life.

"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. Deaths are seen across all ages, but we continue to find that infants are hardest hit because their tissues are rapidly multiplying, they have undeveloped immune systems, and the doses of radioisotopes are proportionally greater than for adults."

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issues weekly reports on numbers of deaths for 122 U.S. cities with a population over 100,000, or about 25-30 percent of the U.S.  In the 14 weeks after Fukushima fallout arrived in the U.S. (March 20 to June 25), deaths reported to the CDC rose 4.46 percent from the same period in 2010, compared to just 2.34 percent in the 14 weeks prior.  Estimated excess deaths during this period for the entire U.S. are about 14,000.

More people died of the flu or flu-like symptoms, therefore, it's Fukushima's fault.  Some methodology there.  I hope these scientists aren't heavily on the government dole.

[Red Arrow]

Arrgh! Another good reason not to visit KC.

I wonder what OK got?

Nothing.  The radiation was afraid to come here.

[Red Arrow]

I hope these scientists aren't heavily on the government dole.

They have to justify their salaries somehow.

[Gaspar]

It must suck to live such a paranoid life.

More people died of the flu or flu-like symptoms, therefore, it's Fukushima's fault.  Some methodology there.  I hope these scientists aren't heavily on the government dole.

LOL! Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman, this is not the first time they have published crap to support their anti-nuclear mission. 

Here's a quick look at their data:

Wow!  When you look at that data you see a big rise over the previous 4 weeks, but why do they only show 4 weeks??  I mean after all, they are showing 10 weeks after the incident?



Oh yeah, that's why!

And when you go back further you actually see even higher spikes, as well as seasonal trends.  Averaging the findings you actually find a decrease in infant mortality, but it was the only indicator that they could use that showed the movement they wanted to portray, and had statistics that they could suppress in their report.

You know if this was real research it would be news.

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