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.

Comments

[DaveyJones]

like the FDA, the EPA would never be a corporate whore

[TyrannoSoros Wrecks]

Radiation is mysterious, unquantifiable shit apparently. The only thing we know about it is that too much causes deformed babies and Godzilla and homosexuality.
The FDA is supposedly the only agency in the world with magic radiation measuring devices, but they are part of the cover-up to suppress the truth (according to the comments in the last Afraidiation thread by George Hussien Owashington).
Occupy Fukushima!

[johnQpublic]

the dosimeter sticker in my wallet says 100 millisieverts in past 12 months

[bunnyswanson]

DoseAware provides instant, time-stamped feedback in the examination room so staff can immediately adjust their working habits to minimize radiation exposure. DoseAware does not replace the TLD as a legal dose meter.

Advantages of a real-time dose meter

• Gives you the information you need to manage your own X-ray dose exposure
• You see when and where X-ray dose was acquired on your personal dose meter so you can take the appropriate action during a procedure
• You can easily check your exposure level with one glance at the colored display in the examination room
• Facilities can archive, report, and analyze radiation data to maintain high levels of occupational safety

http://www.healthcare.philips.com/main/products/solutions/doseaware/

Radiology dept employees wear these, turning them in every month.   Don't give up.

[CheapBastard]

Probably not a good time to be pregnant on the west coast for the next ....mmmm...decade or two at least.

[DaveyJones]

they're only doing it to help with overpopulation

they're only thinking of us

[JamesBond]

Not to take away from anything written in this article but keep in mind that publicaiton/scientific standards for publication in any SCRIP jounal is very low in comparision to other professional journals.  In general, these articles do NOT follow traditinal peer review procedures.  They are a "pay for publication' enterprise.  If you think you have interesting information to report to your field but your methods are on the weak side, this is an alternative for publication.

I am not taking away any thing from GW's article.  Just wanted everyone to know what SCRIP is like..

jb

[Bicycle Repairman]

Yeah, this Fukushima stuff has not undergone the rigorous Al Gore-approved scrutiny that global warming has.  Don't use common sense or your lying eyes.  Wait for official word.  Don't rush to judgment.

[JamesBond]

Drivel unworthy of posting and responding to...

jb

[Sudden Debt]

well, if we all start glowing in the dark, we won't need to turn on the lights at nigh which will save us energy which will cause oil to go down which will reverse the peak oil mystery.

SO THIS IS A GOOD THING!!

never the less I'm glad I don't live there...

[pine_marten]

If Fukushima is no big deal, then why don't we just dump all the spent fuel lying around in the ocean?  Or Martha's Vineyard?

[Treason Season]

Or how about all the descendents of Oppenheimer, Tellet, Fermi and Einstien?

[Iconoclast]

Incredible how this event has been airbrushed from the consciousness, such a massive, life changing event and yet weeks later the MSM took refuge in their celebrity industrial complex. 

[johnQpublic]

celebrity industrial complex

nice

+1

[Son of Loki]

Oncology .... a growing field out on the West Coast.

[TyrannoSoros Wrecks]

Beware of decievers who steal the names of patriots and call themselves libertarians, but who then push the exact same agenda as the communist left. 

[DaveyJones]

beware of folks who still believe in labels 

[Bicycle Repairman]

LOL.  Go on.  Call him a "pinko".  You know your boss wants you to.

[crito]

very scary shit

[pine_marten]

Not a good time to procreate me thinks.

[bunnyswanson]

It is a good time to know your iodine level.

http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2011/oct2011_The-Silent-Epidemic-of-Iodine-Deficiency_01.htm

The Silent Epidemic of Iodine Deficiency By Nancy Piccone  

In 2008, researchers concerned about the growing threat of iodine deficiency analyzed 88 samples1 of iodized table salt—the main supply of this critical micronutrient for mostpeople.2

Less than half of those tested contained amounts of iodine sufficient for optimal health.

Coupled with the trend of reduced salt consumption, rates of iodine deficiency are now reaching epidemic levels.

Earth’s oceans are the main repository of iodine on the planet, and nowhere is iodine as highly concentrated as in seaweed. In particular, seaweeds such as kelp and bladderwrack are capable of concentrating and storing iodine at astonishingly high levels. Scientists speculate that these primitive plants accumulate iodine to protect themselves from oxidative stress in the open ocean.75 Humans can reap the benefits of this natural process, because the iodine in these seaweeds is in the most biologically available forms, making it ideal for consumption.

Summary

Iodine is critical to healthy thyroid function. Its deficiency can cause weight gain, low energy, depression, cardiovascular disease, cognitive decline, and a variety of cancers.

Yet rates of iodine deficiency have reached epidemic levels, increasing fourfold over the past 40 years. A startling 74% of normal, “healthy” adults may no longer be consuming sufficient quantities.

http://www.t-nation.com/readArticle.do?id=5559634

Thyroid function after iodine deficiency explained here in laymen's terms.

Iodinated salt is not used in processed foods.  Also, iodine content of table salt, labeled (Morton's or store brand) as containing iodine hold less content that stated on the label.

[General Decline]

Gee, I wonder if the elite's food source is specially engineered to be high in iodine.  Hmmm.

[Hobbleknee]

Dont' forget:

• After Fukushima, the government, EPA and MSM repeated ad nauseum that there was nothing to fear because iodine-131 has a half life of 8 days. They conveniently ignored the fact that the plant used mox plutonium which contains other isotopes with half lifes of tens of thousands of years.
• The government deliberately withheld reports from radiation monitoring station across the US, and even closed many stations.
• The EPA raised the safety limits for radiation exposure.  The limits of some isotopes were raised 100,000 times the previous "safe" levels.  
• The media focused, and still continues to focus, on the precarious cooling ponds in reactor 4.  According to the MSM, it would be the end of days if reactor 4's cooling ponds collapsed, but everyone saw reactor 3--and its cooling ponds full of spent rods--explode a mile into the sky.

All of this can be confirmed on enenews.com

[pine_marten]

Obama's EPA working against the good of the people?  Oh, I forgot - it's not facism if the liberals are in charge.

[idea_hamster]

"EPA and MSM repeated ad nauseum that there was nothing to fear"

As someone who was both living and working within 4 blocks of the WTC in Sept, 2001, I learned then -- once and for all -- just how valuable the EPA's assessment of how safe any given environment is.  

They were all, "It's OK, dude!  Everyone go back to your normal routine!"  And I was like, "Really? But the whole place smells like a giant burning television set....  I guess the EPA knows."  F'k me running.

We often hear the US criticise countries like China for their overt trampling of rights in the name of "stabiliy" -- well, at least there, it's overt.  There's a type of brutal honesty in it that does have value.

[The Continental]

You amd thousands of others were massively exposed to asbestos in the aftermath of 911. If the EPA really cared about your safety, all of southern Manhattan would have been evacuated and asbestos abatement completed before allowing folk to return. We're about 10 years hence now. I expect rates of lung cancer and mesothelioma and interstital lung disease should be exploding higher about now.

[Bicycle Repairman]

Anyone seen Christy Whitman lately?

<crickets>

[boogerbently]

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[Poofter Priest]

Yes!

I can't get it to load either.

[DaveyJones]

look at the states,

it's not Fukushima, it's gay marriage