Fallout of Fukushima meltdown, The News (Pakistan), October 24, 2011:
Seven percent of the residents living in temporary units for the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefectures have developed blood clots in their legs in the wake of the adviser impact of the Nuclear Power Plants emissions, discloses the story that appeared in The Daily Yomiuri — a Japanese newspaper.
“This is really an alarming development for the Japanese people and this disease should be curbed as soon as possible,” was the instant response of a lady, Ms Kyoko Hata when her attention was drawn by The News towards this horrible development. [...]
The incidence of the problem, known as deep vein thrombosis, was high in the shelters where evacuees remain inactive in limited spaces for long periods. [...]
If the blood clots flow to the lungs, they can block pulmonary arteries which can result in death. The deep vein thrombosis also raises risks of brain [infection] and other serious medical conditions.
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Blood clots found in veins of evacuees’ legs, The Yomiuri Shimbun, October 23, 2011:
“Seven percent of residents in temporary housing units for victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, have developed blood clots in their legs [...] deep thrombophlebitis, the swelling of a vein caused by a blood clot. Thirty-nine of them, or 20 percent, had developed varicose veins.”
“In similar checks conducted in the city’s evacuation shelters by Ueda and his colleagues, 52 of 114 evacuees, or 46 percent, were found to exhibit deep vein thrombophlebitis in March, and 20 of 53 evacuees, or 38 percent, suffered from the problem in late May.”
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I think the fact that many evacuees were seniors without access to proper medical treatment in the shelters will contribute to those numbers…
Poor people…
i cannot see how radiation would cause blood clots principally as an acute effect.
Yablokov:
For both children and adults, diseases of
the blood and the circulatory and lymphatic
systems are among the most widespread consequences
of the Chernobyl radioactive contamination
and are a leading cause of morbidity
and death for individuals who worked as
liquidators.
You’re right, it doesn’t. The blood clots are caused by inactivity.
Where have YOU been?
This article is prepatory for allowing the government to raise radiation rates further and accelerate moving people back into the areas around Fukushima predicated on the reasoning that keeping them in shelters is far more dangerous.
Watch for the spin cycle, their getting better at it every day.
Yep. You’re 100% correct. Get the evacuees out of the expensive shelters and back to their radioactive homes for the sake of their health. My brain hurts.
farawayfan, it’s they’re…not their.
Come on Arnie, you can do so much more. Don’t low ball. Can you be a little more aggresive. Chernobyl is not a rival to fuk. 1 million cancers is way lowball because nothing else compares. Redefine your role please. You are our voice. Consider.
Hi CB, I tend to think that Arnie just can’t do any more or react more aggressive than he does without risking not to be invited to speak to the NRC and the like….
He is extremely valuable in the position he’s in, and I think he’s doing good moves. He’s the ONLY one who’s been on the subject constantly!
Where’s Busby btw??
Wheres Busby?
And: where’s the corium?
down there, a little bit.. still working away at its deadly destiny
Mr.Gundersen hasn’t said corium yet..I see.
Sigh..that’s why I don’t watch him.
Why agitate myself?
Much respect for the man…don’t get me wrong.
I love that B&B,…you always come back to the ‘core’ of the problem? “Show me the CORIUM, damnit!”
Where’s Occupy Tokyo?
Agreed B&B, A little humility. Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: That you are dreadfully like other people. The voice of us.
not saying this is the case but,…
BEWARE of the water supplies.
BEWARE of the vaccinations.
Back 400 years ago if they didn’t want to feed burdensome people, they would cast them away. These days, they experiment on and/or poison them.
there are bad people doing bad things these days. THINK.
I just got my flu shot minus the mecury/preservative.
Infant mortality rates regressed against number of vaccine doses routinely given: Is there a biochemical or synergistic toxicity?
1. Neil Z Miller neilzmiller@gmail.com
1.
Independent researcher, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
1. Gary S Goldman
1.
Independent computer scientist, Pearblossom, California, USA
Abstract
The infant mortality rate (IMR) is one of the most important indicators of the socio-economic well-being and public health conditions of a country. The US childhood immunization schedule specifies 26 vaccine doses for infants aged less than 1 year—the most in the world—yet 33 nations have lower IMRs. Using linear regression, the immunization schedules of these 34 nations were examined and a correlation coefficient of r = 0.70 (p < 0.0001) was found between IMRs and the number of vaccine doses routinely given to infants. Nations were also grouped into five different vaccine dose ranges: 12–14, 15–17, 18–20, 21–23, and 24–26. The mean IMRs of all nations within each group were then calculated. Linear regression analysis of unweighted mean IMRs showed a high statistically significant correlation between increasing number of vaccine doses and increasing infant mortality rates, with r = 0.992 (p = 0.0009). Using the Tukey-Kramer test, statistically significant differences in mean IMRs were found between nations giving 12–14 vaccine doses and those giving 21–23, and 24–26 doses. A closer inspection of correlations between vaccine doses, biochemical or synergistic toxicity, and IMRs is essential.
J Hosp Infect. 2011 Oct 4. [Epub ahead of print]
Effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccination in healthcare workers: a systematic review.
Ng AN, Lai CK.
Source
Infectious Disease Control Training Centre, Hospital Authority/Infection Control Branch, Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Abstract
Vaccination is considered a key measure to protect vulnerable groups against influenza infection. The objectives of this review are to determine the effect of influenza vaccinations in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza infections, influenza-like illnesses (ILIs), working days lost among vaccinated HCWs, and associated adverse effects after vaccination. Twenty-two healthcare-related databases and internet resources, as well as reference lists, and the bibliographies of all of the retrieved articles were examined. All randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing the effectiveness of any kind of influenza vaccine among all groups of HCWs with a placebo/vaccine other than the influenza vaccine/no intervention were included in the review. Only three RCTs matched the inclusion criteria. There is a limited amount of evidence suggesting that receiving influenza vaccination reduces laboratory-confirmed influenza infections in HCWs. No evidence can be found of influenza vaccinations significantly reducing the incidence of influenza, number of ILI episodes, days with ILI symptoms, or amount of sick leave taken among vaccinated HCWs. There is insufficient data to assess the adverse effects after vaccination. There is no definitive conclusion on the effectiveness of influenza vaccinations in HCWs because of the limited number of related trials. Further research is necessary to evaluate whether annual vaccination is a key measure to protect HCWs against influenza infection and thus increase their confidence in the vaccine. In the mean time, the direction of promoting influenza vaccination to HCWs can be shifted from staff protection…
Autoimmune response following annual influenza vaccination in 92 apparently healthy adults.
Toplak N, Kveder T, Trampus-Bakija A, Subelj V, Cucnik S, Avcin T.
Source
Department of Allergology, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Children’s Hospital, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia. natasa.toplak@kclj.si
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate the possibility of autoimmune responses following annual influenza vaccination in a large cohort of apparently healthy adults.
METHODS:
Autoantibodies including antinuclear antibodies (ANA), anticardiolipin antibodies (aCL), anti-beta(2)-glycoprotein I antibodies (anti-beta(2)-GPI), lupus anticoagulant (LA) and anti-extractable nuclear antigen antibodies (anti-ENA) were determined in 92 healthy adult subjects, staff at the University Children’s Hospital Ljubljana. Blood samples were taken from each participant before the vaccination, 1 month and 6 months after the annual influenza vaccination.
RESULTS:
Before the influenza vaccination, 26% of participants were positive for ANA, 16% for aCL, 7% for anti-beta(2)-GPI, 2% for LA and 1% for anti-ENA. There were no statistically significant differences in the percentage of positive ANA, aCL, anti-beta(2)-GPI, LA and anti-ENA before, 1 month and 6 months after the vaccination. One month after the vaccination 24% of participants demonstrated changes in the levels of autoantibodies including 15% of participants with increased level of autoantibodies or appearance of new autoantibodies. Six months after the vaccination 26% of participants demonstrated changes in the levels of autoantibodies including 13% of participants with increased level of autoantibodies or appearance of new autoantibodies. Persistently elevated levels of autoantibodies were observed in 7 (8%) participants and 2 showed progressively increased levels of IgM aCL or IgA anti-beta(2)-GPI, respectively. Eleven participants had a transient increase in autoantibodies…
the evidence is on balance is equivocal.
for mercury and aluminim, plausible.
for autoimmune reactions, rare but plausible.
I imagine things are far worse than the info that is leaking out. Why no information on the workers? Are they sick? Dying? What king of numbers are risking their health/life to deal with this nuclear disaster?
Hey Edward, there was a video posted yesterday where a Fuku citizen said some workers in the highly contaminated areas were forced to work until they got really sick (don’t recall where he got the info from, just read it on the fly).
Video source was Fukushima-diary.com , I think. Check the site.
I remembered though the news from a couple of months ago saying that Tepco had lost track of ca. 190 workers and nobody knew where they were.
*B&B busy connecting dots
Thanks B&B
@Edward, I’m sure there are HERO’s. God bless the unsung HERO’s! I’m sure Kamikaze is redefined there. Gods speed to the Japanese.
We have to stay aware of any patterns which seem to develop while this never before situation unfolds. This is highly suspicious as a symptom of something. Unfortunately radiation is an overwhelming presence in the environment and cannot be lightly passed by as a potentially causative agent.
i am a medical doctor and biomedical engineer.
look up virchow’s triad.
if radiation dose is sufficient to cause endothelial dysfunction then presumably there would be other symptoms accompanying increased clotting.
clotting in the absence of other symptoms is probably a symptom of inactivity.
radiation will target hematopoietic stem cells and decrease their proliferation (when cells divide they are open for damage and can be killed by radiation which is why we treat cancer (rapidly dividing cells with exposed dna) with radiation), leading to lower counts of thrombocytes among other cells in the blood. this causes bleeding, not clotting, which is consistent with the known effects of radiation.
it is important not to jump to conclusions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endothelial_dysfunction
Interesting. Tacomagroove had videos of a rash of bloody noses and they presented in the same way in that they were bright red AND coagulated with big long clots. Bloody noses can be bright red and flowing, or not, or bright red and with some clots here and there or darker blood, stringy, glary with mucous, etc. etc. Now, we are seeing blood clots in the body. Just taking a mental note. Hmmm. For sure, inactivity can be conducive to blood clots. Maybe they aren’t eating as much Natto as they used to. That could thin blood.
when blood is exposed to the outside as in a bloody nose it will coagulate and clot up. then they blow their nose and we see all the clots. the body does this to seal up the wound. this phenomenon is very different from clots forming inside the arteries or veins as it is circulating, which is not normally supposed to happen.
when we walk our muscles (particularly the calves and lower leg muscles) keep the blood in our veins moving up toward the heart. when people lay around all day they dont use their muscles and the blood can pool in the large caliber veins longer than usual. this can make people more likely to clot.
Well, let’s take a critical eye and look at other ‘forced confinements’,…did they suffer an increase of DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS?