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

Radiation Public Health Project ^ | Dec 19, 2011 | Joseph J. Mangano

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – December 19, 2011 -- 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........

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).

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I live in eastern WA State. Cannot find measurements for my location. I wonder why these have never been published. If you have other sources, please post to this thread.

[hinckley buzzard]

They've never been published because they are meaningless.

[stubernx98]

Well that is nothing, there has been 17,357 deaths due to truck vibrations when they pass over bridges. And wait until you hear what is the result of trains passing by.

Then there is Congress.....

[qam1]

Yeah sure, give me some names of these people

This sounds like the phantom 40,000 dying each year from 2nd hand smoke or 50,000 from coal plants or the numerous others people BS death liberals make

[DoughtyOne]

Bingo!

14,000 deaths? Some degrees (credentials) should be taken back before this is over. This is total bull-s**t.

[NoPrisoners]

Check out the subject radiation hormesis. There is some evidence that low-dose radiation actually activates radiation-protective genes.

[mkjessup]

They've never been published because they are meaningless.

Could you perhaps elaborate a bit on that? I find this one paragraph a bit more than meaningless:

"The 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. is about 14,000."

That may not be a demonstrable cause and effect at work, but it is damned curious.

[G Larry]

As with most anti-nuclear reports, the conclusions and the data are fabricated.

[jazusamo]

Bogus Bogus Bogus

Do a search and list the credentials of the International Journal of Health Services.

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Please explain.

I hope they’re meaningless, because Boise having 200 x the normal level of
radiation is scary. Here in the inland NW, weather patterns have been bizarre, with huge storm clouds rising up from Japan to Alaska and then almost straight down over Spokane and on down to Boise. A few days after Fukushima, local news reported high levels of radiation, then all news stopped.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Name ONE. Seriously. One person in the USA who died as a direct result of the Fukushima Fallout.

In the 1980's there were news reports which claimed that thousands of homeless people were starving to death every day. Yet, the same newspapers never had a single story of a specific homeless person dying of starvation.

[Proud2BeRight]

14,000 in the US from one accident across the pacific? So how does that meet the smell test with only 11,000 worldwide from over 500 above ground nuke tests worldwide?

Between 1945-1980 there were over 500 atmospheric nuke blast tests all around the world. The CDC and NCI claim that worldwide it resulted in 11,000 deaths. That too was iodine-131 radiation.
http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10621

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Hope you’re right, because between years of dental X-rays and now Fukushima clouds over my head, I’m darned near glowing in the dark. Is that a good thing?

[oneamericanvoice]

The lady on the catering truck had asked me if I was taking any precautions due to the then-imminent arrival of said fallout here on the west coast. I politely laughed. This is even more hilarious. If I were not of the moral character I would have made a mint on the pills and geiger counters.

These doctors should be stripped of their licenses and the Journal shuttered.

I have enough swamp land and bridges, doc. Thanks! But if you buy a Coke you can save the polar bears.

[Deaf Smith]

The timing of the Fukushima fallout took the blame away from Comet Elenin s/. http://www.ufo-blogger.com/2011/05/comet-elenin-white-house-letter.html

[Question Liberal Authority]

I find this one paragraph a bit more than meaningless:

Seriously? OK. Here goes. A person died by falling off a ladder. This report would chalk up that person's death to Nuclear Fallout from Japan. A person chokes to death on an undercooked turnip. This report chalks up that person's death to Nuclear Fallout from Japan.

"Excess Deaths" were already up year-to-year by 2.34 percent in the 14 weeks prior to the Earthquake. So it stands to reason that "Excess Deaths" fluctuates by several percentage points for no apparent reason.

This same non-logic has been used to "prove" that eggs cause heart attacks or that global warming kills baby polar bears.

Personally, I'm willing to blame every single one of the 14,000 deaths on the American Recovery And Reinvestment Act of 2009.

[PGR88]

What the hell does “peer-reviewed” exactly mean anyway?

That you have had the other like-minded, tenured progressives at your State-funded University reach the same pre-determined conclusions????

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Even so, I’d like to see an official disclaimer that says the Pacific Northwest is totally free of radiation from Japan. We’re certainly not free of debris from Fukushima washing up on our shores, some of which “may be radioactive.”

[exDemMom]

Hope you’re right, because between years of dental X-rays and now Fukushima clouds over my head, I’m darned near glowing in the dark. Is that a good thing?

Yes. When the electricity goes out in the middle of the night, you don't have to try to remember where you left the flashlight.

[LukeL]

If this were true, as radiation would disipate as it moved eastward (maybe by the square of the distance or the cube) then we should have well over 1 million deaths in Japan and islands like Guam, Samoa, and others should have had 5-10% of their populations wiped out.