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Study: 28% Increase In Thyroid Problems In Babies Born After Fukushima in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington
Infants are much more vulnerable to radiation than adults. And see this.
However, radiation safety standards are set based on the assumption that everyone in the world is a healthy man in his 20s.
Now, a medical doctor (Janette D. Sherman, M. D.) and epidemiologist (Joseph Mangano) have released a study showing a 28% increase in thyroid problems in babies born in Hawaii and America's West Coast after the Fukushima nuclear accident.
Janette Sherman, M.D. worked for the Atomic Energy Commission (forerunner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission) at the University of California in Berkeley, and for the U.S. Navy Radiation Defense Laboratory in San Francisco. She served on the EPA’s advisory board for 6 years, and has been an advisor to the National Cancer Institute on breast cancer. Dr. Sherman specializes in internal medicine and toxicology with an emphasis on chemicals and nuclear radiation.
Joseph J. Mangano is a public health administrator and researcher who has studied the connection between low-dose radiation exposure and subsequent risk of diseases such as cancer and damage to newborns. He has published numerous articles and letters in medical and other journals in addition to books, including Low Level Radiation and Immune System Disorders: An Atomic Era Legacy.
Their new study - published in the Open Journal of Pediatrics - is entitled "Elevated airborne beta levels in Pacific/West Coast US States and trends in hypothyroidism among newborns after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown."
Common Dreams notes:
[The study found that] children born in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington between one week and 16 weeks after the meltdown began are 28 percent more likely to suffer from congenital hypothyroidism (CH) than were kids born in those states during the same period one year earlier.
CH results from a build up of radioactive iodine in our thyroids and can result in stunted growth, lowered intelligence, deafness, and neurological abnormalities—though can be treated if detected early.
According to researchers from the Radiation and Public Health Project who performed the study, “Fukushima fallout appeared to affect all areas of the US, and was especially large in some, mostly in the western part of the nation.” They add that CH can provide an early measure to "assess any potential changes in US fetal and infant health status after Fukushima because official data was available relatively promptly."
Health researcher Joe Mangano similarly cautioned, "Reports of rising numbers of West Coast infants with under-active thyroid glands after Fukushima suggest that Americans may have been harmed by Fukushima fallout. Studies, especially of the youngest, must proceed immediately."
Earlier this year, the Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey found that more than 40 percent of the Japanese children studied showed evidence of thyroid abnormalities, which Wasserman says signifies a "horrifying plague."
Sherman and Mangano published an essay in June 2011 claiming that the 35% spike in infant mortality in Northwest cities since the Fukushima meltdown might have been caused by radiation.
And they published a study in December 2011 in the peer-reviewed journal International Journal of Health Services, alleging that 14,000 people had already died in the United States due to Fukushima. A Scientific American blog post and Med Page Today slammed the study as being voodoo science. However, Scientific American does admit:
Certainly radiation from Fukushima is dangerous, and could very well lead to negative health effects—even across the Pacific.
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Look at this sea surface temperature map. The sea off Japan/Fuku is quite hot!
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gif
Thanks GW.
It takes a special quality of energy to go to the places you do.
I'm grateful for the reports you share.
Stay on top of this GW!! You know something is rotten when you hear *nothing* in the news .....
Obama plans to appoint Caroline Kennedy as Ambassador to Japan. There goes another Kennedy.
My first thought too.
Caroline ,Please stay away from grassy knolls ...........
President Obama’s science czar John Holden was an advocate of baby credits to control global cooling before he advocated carbon credits to control global warming. And this guy wants to spend taxpayer's money. You cannot make this stuff up. http://tinyurl.com/d9cdqwe
That job position has nothing to do with science.
Let me add that one of the great virtues of ZH is that both nominally 'liberal' and 'conservative' people come here to blast the living shit out of the corruption and lies that have become the greatest threat to the Republic and to civilization as we thought we knew it.
(speaking as one who used to enjoy getting plowed at the bar in college while defending the conservative positions from that day's ethics class to my fuzzy-headed liberal peers' shock and dismay--even though I didn't agree with the conservative position most of the time--what the fuck ever happended to the notion of critical thinking? Maybe it never happened in the first place. I feel like a goddamn experiment sometimes.)
We are watching a multi-Chernobyl nuclear disaster playing out, still. And from what I've seen the public isn't all that ignorant--any time something does get on MSM outlets it zooms to the top of the 'most read' lists. It's kind of a low-level constant stress factor, a new (another!) risk added to everyone's lives. People know.
From my point of view I still feel the worst for the residents of Fukushima City, abandoned by their authorities with perhaps some hosing down of houses....250,000 souls there. Plenty of death and suffering coming.
Currently, so to speak, the most urgent matters are the stability of the fuel pools and the continuing unknown amount of water leakage and ocean contamination. Most of the several Chernobyls worth of radionuclides are in the water that's been flushing the ruined cores as well as the many, many cores' worth of spent fuel in the pools. This 'spray and pray' jury-rigged disaster management system is now entering its third year. THIRD YEAR!!!
It is not 'contained', not 'stable', and not 'safe'. No one has seen the cores. No one knows how much water is leaking out every day or where it's going. And the most radioactive fish ever caught since the disaster began? It was caught all of three weeks ago. The level of cesium (yes, it's cesium that one should be most focused on although there are a dozen other candidates): 7,400 TIMES THE LIMIT. 740,000 bequerels per kg.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/16/national/record-cesium-level-detected-in-fish-caught-near-fukushima-nuclear-plant/
I have a bunch of papers about the ocean currents around the coast and into Tokyo Bay. Remember, or learn: Japan is only habitable on nine arable plains (29% of the land area). The Sendai plan is already compromised by Fukushima (one reason they don't want to talk about Fukushima City). If the Kanto Plain, where Tokyo is, gets 'involved' in any significant way by air, water or land contamination, it is an existential threat to Japan. Japan doesn't have the land area to give up like Ukraine and the rest of Eastern Europe. And if Tokyo Bay turns up radioactive in a few years (or the next time anyone bothers to look).................
http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Asia-and-Oceania/Japan-TOPOGRAPHY.html
People aren't ignorant so much as they have just given up. How much mental stress can the average person endure regarding things that he has come to see as a huge racket, controlled for their profit by the rich and powerful, and protected by vast police, military and security forces.
A rational person would wonder why the entire world didn't mobilize massive resources to find solutions and implement them at Fukushima. But they conclude that it's just business as usual, that nothing, absolutely nothing, not even the health of the human race, will be allowed to impede the flow of profits to the mighty.
So they give up. Stress overload combined with intense feelings of powerlessness does not make for a healthy mind.
Between Fukushima, Monsanto, Wall Street, the military and the pharmaceutical companies, the USA is mutating very quickly into something ugly. Is it any wonder that the people are turning to their guns?
Thankfully, in Canada our the Harper Cons have muzzled scientists and gutted environmental monitoring. We don't have to worry about those stinking statistics on our West Coast.
The 'downwinders' in the US during the era of open air nuclear testing in Nevada had health issues linked to radiation and any baby boomer who got put off that carton of milk on their school lunch tray when reports came in it could have Strontium 90 mixed in with the vitamin D now must wonder at the other end of their lives if the cancers they and their friends may now be getting were not, in some way, linked to that childhood radiation exposure. That said, being 7000 miles away from Fukushima is a lot better than being 700 miles away from a Nevada test and, as far as I know, no downwind effects were observed ( or looked for) in East Coast populations 2000 miles downwind. They were the 'control group' so thyroid problems or outbreaks of leukemia in, say, Virginia were considered the 'norm' against which populations in Utah or Oklahoma could be compared.
We need to look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki statistics after "Little Man" and "Big Boy" were dropped as a true bench mark and to help with the correlations.
the real norm is in europe.
the problem is you need similiar populations, similiar food intakes, etc.,,, maybe california was a good control for the downwinders.
Looks like the sucidial Japanese "Imperial Marine" mentality is still storng and healty. They will do anything to inflict harm to the ememy, even at the cost of the distruction of their homeland.
Those old WW 2 Vets were not wrong when they said'' if you see a Jap with a sword in their hand shoot him".
My uncle told me about one Jap officer with a leg and arm 1/2 shot off still trying to attack Banzi style, another marine jumed forward to get the sword for his own and got a sliced open belly for the effort.
Tweaking in the Valley of Meth. Nazi soldiers were said to also have been given methamphetamine. Benzedrine was used as well to keep soldiers fatigue at bay. Addiction and psychosis was an issue in Japan where it was readily available after war ended due to surplus supply made by govt.
Personal data point: My distant cousin was in Poland (think East Prussia) when Chernobyl happen. He is now 35 years old and lives in US. He has thyroid problems.
The problem is that so much of information is not collected. If they had the data then they would have to "do" something about it.
Just one of the unfort side effects that the gov't can blame on 1000 other things or delay. Until everyone in Tokyo is dead Fukishima is a non-news item for the US gov't. "Oh it's ok, they're cleaning it up and the ocean washed most of it away. Now here, eat your tuna salad sandwich and shutup."
Good thought.
-1 for "unfort".
Fukushima is a slow motion train wreck and the actual number of victims will be hidden from us in the same way that the true number of Iraq and Afghanistan casualties are also hidden by changing the definition of war casualty to cover only those that die with their boots on the ground and to exclude those that dies on the way to the hospital and even in hospital.
I am just waiting for the day when "two headed" children born in the aftermath of Fukushima are spotted on the street. How will they explain this or will the USA build another amusement park to parade these kids.
Wae up America, you are being attacked from the inside out.
There is a market for two headed chickens in China. It may be considered both food and enhance ones sex drive.
Where are all the eco-warriors fighting Fukushima? Access to the media cut off? LOL. No money for Fukushima conferences? LOL. Instead of a carbon tax how about a tax on MOX? LOL. It's been two years. Enough time to publish a paper. Certainly academia will take notice. LOL. How can I short Fukushima or go long thyroid cancer?
LO-F-L.
What are the victimss in Cyprus doing ?
Any "news" coverage on that ?
the big problem is that radiation from fukushima exists.
a carbon problem does not exist.
it is much easier to fight a problem that does not exist.
you may claim victories great and small while actually doing nothing but raising taxes and digging holes to refill again later.
fighting a real problem is much more difficult and expensive and may in fact be a losing battle.
The MSM states that the only Japanese affected were those families actually living inside the containment units. Go back to sleep my little angels.
Who really knows about their thyroids? However we can all agree that these children will have a much higher chance of being killed by a volcano than American children in general.
"Who really knows about their thyroids?"
LOL. Was this a question posed by Socrates or was it part of Hamlet's soliloquy?
It was Readers' Digest: "I am Joe's Thyroid".
Worth going to the MED PAGE TODAY and read the comments. Then decide.
we'll never know the truth until 20 years from now, like agent orange and the nerve gas from persian gulf 1.
History is written by the victors. Some important truths have been hidden for say, 50 years. Almost exactly 50 years.
Times are changing. Look at the WMD of Iraq. We really never new about them and then found out they were not. 9/11 and all that crap seems to be believed still by a few but most thinking people know it was all a US Govment scam to muster sympathy and excuse it for collateral damage. So we may not even be around in 50 years. Seems that 50 year stuff was mean't more to hide the truth than to remove any hard feelings that may be held between warring parties. In that case we have a lot of warring parties who have been at each others throats for 1000s of years. ie.. hebrews and jews, Irac sects, Chinese and Japanese, Coratians and Serbs, ...need another beer.
so...in 2051 people will know three buildings came down
And Oswald killed Kennedy. Oswald was shooting at Connolly because Connolly had stolen Oswald's lunch money. After he was hit Connolly was heard to shout "That fucker Oswald is killing me over lunch money?!?!?!?" A tragedy really.
The first casualty of war is information.
How many times do we have to debunk these liberal studies before we start to look at them with skepticism? The sites cited by George are often reactionary and wrong. Go to his links and look at the study. The conclusions drawn cannot be supported by the data. It may warrant more investigation, but drawing the conclusion being made is irresponsible at best. Who should you believe, the technologist who have double our life spans and provided comforts unseen in the history of man or the environmentalist who have stood in the way of advancement, supported ideologies which have produced the most polluted countries on earth(Soviet Union), and generally made us less efficient(more waste) as a society.
Japan has a big government society which most liberals want for our country. Why do we want to give our government(health care) more power over our lifes?
OMG I hope you have stock in Koolaid!
If the research entities support the "global warming" ruse, then they are not to be trusted.
doubled our life spans?
ben franklin died when he was 84
show me one, just one friggin person who has lived to 168 and i will shut the fuck up forever and never comment on anything ever again
Average lifespan is one of those FU statistics. We used to have a ton of childhood diseases that wiped out a huge percentage of young children. When you include that group in average lifespan, it looks like people's average age of death wass 39 or something.
However, if you take the average lifespan of a statistical group beginning at say 35, you find that there has been very little increase in average lifespan, if at all. It's all a ruse to make modern medicine look good. Kind of like saying vaccines have been so effective, when it can be shown that the improvement in nutrition and cleanliness standards are responsible for most of the gains against all those diseases.
I brought up this sort of arguement with my life insurance sombi as few weeks ago. At 58 I have already beat the world average life span. I also told him that I was ready to cash it in any time so when my new, much higer rates come along, I will be telling him to fuck off. He just laughed.
hard to believe that poisoning your food and your environment would have that kind of effect...
we have made no progress with cancer either except for... eating healthy food (see Gerson Method, Colin Campbell - China Study, and a number of other honest folks)
"How many times do we have to debunk these liberal studies before we start to look at them with skepticism?"
Why don't you start with this one, TomyT?
So no one has been taking radiation level measurements of food and water with a geiger counter?
...So no one has been taking radiation level measurements of food and water with a geiger counter?
Measuring the radioactivity of food is a bit problematic. Most of an alpha emitter's radiation in meat or plant tissue probably wouldn't register on a geiger counter or dosimeter because it'll be absorbed by the surrounding foodstuff... ingest it, though, and its emissions will be absorbed by you, increasing your chances of developing cancer.
I took measurments. I saw a measurable, (2-3x) rise in background radiation about a week after the powerplants blew, which settled back to baseline after a few days.
Next time I change the airfilter in my heater/car, I'll measure them again as well. Last time I didn't see anything.
It's all over youtube.....
I have taken readings from the start. most of what we're getting comes in the rain and snow fall, that's where the hottest readings are made. Most days it rains you can get readings of 100-400 CPM from any rain swipe and that's on the east coast. I have seen readings from the west coast and Gulph states much higher.
this guy seems to be on top of things, but the EPA say's every thing's ok and nothing to see here so no need to worry.lol
http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/