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STUDY: THYROID CANCER SURGE AMONG YOUTH IN FUKUSHIMA REGION
The
nuclear accident of Fukushima is already leading to a surge in the
number of cases of thyroid cancer, according to research being
presented this week in Switzerland by Japanese scientist Toshihide
Tsuda.
21
August, 2013
The
Swiss daily Le Temps reports
that Tsuda, professor of environmental epidemiology at the
University of Okayama, said his tests show the annual incidence of
thyroid cancer among those 18-years-old and younger in the Fukushima
area to be 157 per one million, more than 31 times superior to the
national average of five per million.
These
numbers, presented in the Swiss city of Basel, show a stronger and
faster evolution than that after the Chernobyl incident in the Soviet
Union in 1986 and, Tsuda believes, are only the first signs of a
wider health catastrophe.
The
Japanese nuclear agency announced Wednesday that it had upgraded
the severity level of
a radioactive water leak at the Fukushima plant to the highest level
since the accident occurred in 2011.
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