Well, it does seem now that I have been proven correct about the dangers facing the people in North America from this deadly Fukushima radioactive fallout... According to this new article from Market Watch, at www.marketwatch.com, there is a new article from the Medical Journal stating that some 14,000 deaths in the United States can be attributed to exposure to the fallout from the Fukushima disaster! First here is that Market Watch article here for everyone to view, and I do have some additional comments to follow:
press release
Dec. 19, 2011, 11:00 a.m. EST
Medical Journal Article: 14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ --
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. 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). Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, MPH MBA, said: "This
study of Fukushima health hazards is the first to be published in a
scientific journal. It raises concerns, and strongly suggests that
health studies continue, to understand the true impact of Fukushima in
Japan and around the world. Findings are important to the current
debate of whether to build new reactors, and how long to keep aging ones
in operation."Mangano is executive director, Radiation and Public
Health Project, and the author of 27 peer-reviewed medical journal
articles and letters. Internist and toxicologist Janette Sherman, MD,
said: "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."Dr. Sherman is an adjunct professor, Western
Michigan University, and contributing editor of "Chernobyl -
Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment"
published by the NY Academy of Sciences in 2009, and author of "Chemical
Exposure and Disease and Life's Delicate Balance - Causes and
Prevention of Breast Cancer."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.
EDITOR'S NOTE: A streaming audio replay of a related news event will be
available on the Web at
http://www.radiation.org as of 4 p.m. EST/2100 GMT on December 19,
2011. Embargoed copies of the medical journal article are available by
contacting Ailis Aaron Wolf, (703) 276-3265 or aawolf@hastingsgroup.com.
SOURCE Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman, International Journal of Health Services
Copyright (C) 2011 PR Newswire. All rights reserved
NTS Notes: I knew from day one of the Fukushima nuclear disaster that the truth was not being told to the general public. I have also stated in many articles that everyone must be told the absolute truth about this disaster to allow them to be prepared for the worst case scenario.
I live in Canada, and we are being subjected to the same deadly radiation that the United States is presently being bathed in. If this report is right, and some 14,000 US deaths can be directly linked to the deadly Fukushima fallout, then by using logic due to the ratio of Canadian to US population, there will be at least 1,500 more deaths here in Canada as well....
And where the heck are our media and our governments in all this? Their failure to report the true facts about Fukushima is beyond criminal. It is up to readers to take this Medical Journal report, bring it to our own media outlets and government officials and bring them to task for their failure to report the truth.
More to come
NTS
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