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Fiftyfold increase in child thyroid cancers in Fukushima residents

thyroid-cancer-papillaryChild cancers up fiftyfold after Fukushima disaster The Times,  Richard Lloyd Parry Tokyo, October 8 2015  Cases of thyroid cancer among children living close to the Fukushima nuclear power plant have increased fiftyfold since the meltdown in 2011, according to Japanese scientists.

Residents of Fukushima prefecture in northeast Japan should be monitored in the same way as survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, say the researchers, who offer one of the most pessimistic assessments so far of the health implications of the world’s second worst nuclear disaster……..http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/article4579144.ece

October 9, 2015 - Posted by | Fukushima 2015

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