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The ONLY child with symptoms mentioned is the one child in your excerpt, who had a nosebleed, according to her mother, for 3 weeks in April,...

Wrong. Your responses would be more coherent if you actually read the entire article.

The mother said their doctor told her it was just a seasonal allergy from pollen. Her other child, 2-year-old son, had nosebleed from end of April to May.

YOu are right, the mother claimed there was also a 2-year-old with a nosebleed, but that child was not said to have been seen by the doctor, and the doctor only spoke about the older child. Don't know why, I would assume the mother would have brought both children.

On the other hand, I'm not sure how long the period is between "the end of April" and "may".

THe quote from the doctor with the free clinic: "The pediatrician from The Bridge to Chernobyl, Yurika Hashimoto, told the mother it was hard to determine whether the nosebleed was the result of radiation exposure, but they should have the blood test done for white blood cells."

Now, I don't know why the doctor only spoke about ONE of the two children; maybe it was actually a translation problem and he said "nosebleeds", but I can only comment on what is actually written in the article.

Since the article never said how long the two-year-old's nosebleed was, maybe it wasn't really long enough to be a concern to the doctor.

Unless Japan has another month between april and may that I'm not aware of.

I did read the entire article, although from a different source (these anti-nuclear articles actually get posted all over the place, and only a few of them are accessable from my work).