Baby death rate spike since Fukushima radiation cover-up
Babies are dying at a 35% increased rate in eight northwest U.S. cities since the Fukushima meltdowns, evidence supporting radiation expert Joseph Managno's assertion that Americans will pay a high price for government and media cover-up and deception related to Fukushima radiation, such as telling women that there are only trace levels of radiation from Fukushima and that these are harmless. Women in the United States will now have a special commonality with Japanese women in terms of suffering spontaneous abortions and infant deaths.
A report by Mangano, executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project and co-authored by Janette Sherman about increased infant morbidity since the Fukushima catastrophe, highlights that although the United States spends billions on medical care, as of 2006, the US ranked 28th in the world in infant mortality, over twice that of the lowest ranked countries. (DHHS, CDC, National Center for Health Statistics. Health United States 2010, Table 20, p. 131, February 2011.)
Friday's Counterpunch article by Mangano and Sherman emphasizes that the recent CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report indicates northwest U.S. cities, Boise ID, Seattle WA, Portland OR, plus northern California cities of Santa Cruz, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, and Berkeley have each reported data on deaths among those younger than one year of age including:
4 weeks ending March 19, 2011 - 37 deaths (avg. 9.25 per week)
10 weeks ending May 28, 2011 - 125 deaths (avg.12.50 per week)
"This amounts to an increase of 35% (the total for the entire U.S. rose about 2.3%), and is statistically significant. Of further significance is that those dates include the four weeks before and the ten weeks after the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster."
As Mangano told the Examiner, warning Americans about Fukushima fallout, unborn and babies are more vulnerable because their cells are rapidly dividing and the delivered dose of radiation is proportionally larger than delivered to adults.
Why should we care if there may be is a link between Fukushima and the death of children?
"Because we need to measure the actual levels of isotopes in the environment and in the bodies of people exposed to determine if the fallout is killing our most vulnerable," the experts say.
But that research is not being conducted, against best interest of the public according to Mangano.
"The research is not technically difficult – the political and economic barriers may be greater," he and Sherman report.
Bandshevsky and others conducted such research as it related to the Chernobyl meltdown, confirming the connection.
Dr. Helen Caldicott has also cited the recent New York Academy of Sciences report that stated over 1 million people died as a direct result of the 1986 Chernobyl melt-down, mostly from cancer.
"The situation is very grim and not just for the Japanese people," said Caldicott.
Only days after the Fukushima meltdowns began, it took a group of Japanese grassroots volunteers to rescue babies and pregnant women from the Fukushima Nuclear power plant fallout, since the Japanese government told everyone within the 20-mile radius danger zone of the leaking plants to remain indoors where people are being radiated.
The Radiation and Public Health Project is one of the only non-government organizations in the U.S. consistently warning the public about the Fukushima dangers for Americans.
As in the nation's Gulf coast region where, due to the April 20, 2010 oil-rig explosion, radiation from BP's oil plus chemicals and biological agents from Corexit are linked to harm of pregnant women and babies, the government is making little effort to prevent American women and babies from suffering due to Fukushima meltdowns.
New research has shed light on sharp increases in both Gulf miscarriages and Gulf dead baby dolphins.
Mangano and Sherman state, "Low birth weight babies, born too soon and too small, face a lifetime of health problems, including cerebral palsy, and behavioral and learning problems placing an enormous physical, emotional and economic burdens on society as a whole and on those caring for them."
While "death of a young child is devastating to a family," it is most devastating to the mother.
Continue reading on Examiner.com Am women pay high price for Fukushima cover-up: 35% more dead babies - National Human Rights | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/american-women-paying-highest-price-for-fukushima-cover-up-35-baby-death
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