Japanese Physician Calls for Evacuation of Tokyo
Strange things
happening — Medications don't seem to work — Rare diseases increasing
dramatically Dr. Shigeru Mita, Mita Clinic in Tokyo: Our patients mostly
come from Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Saitama, and other Northern Kanto
areas. The pediatricians' general textbook says that reference value of
neutrophil [the most abundant type of white blood cells, essential part
of immune system] for healthy children (6-12 years old) is [...] 4000,
but it has shifted to 2500. It is lower than the threshold value of
3000. I think this points at a serious problem. [...] In the summer of
2011, there were many children with bloodshot eyes; and what we saw most
were children with dark circles under the eyes. [...] we are seeing
more cases of sinusitis accompanied with mild case of asthma continuing
for longer periods. And when these children spend some time in the West,
they get better. If at all possible, I would like them to move away
from East Japan. [...] [...] radioactive substances coming from
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have reached Tokyo, and huge
amounts of contaminated waste is being burned here as well, I cannot
deny the possibility that we are inhaling radioactive substances
contained in the air. Again, let me repeat that after the nuclear
accident, enormous amounts of nuclear substances were released in the
environment. Therefore, if we see an increase in symptoms that are
different from the ones we've seen before, we physicians should "first
consider the effects of radioactivity." [...] Mita: [...] But my real
hope is to have not just children but also adults move away from Tokyo.
[...] [The adult] conditions are definitely different compared to how it
was before the nuclear accident. With elderly people, it takes more
time for asthma to heal. The medication doesn't seem to work. We also
see more patients with diseases that had been rare before; for example,
polymyalgia rheumatica [...] Before 3.11, we had one or less patient per
year. Now, we treat more than 10 patients at the same time. [...] I
think doctors who knew their patients well should become aware of the
strange things that were happening to them. [...]
The stricken
nuclear plant at Fukushima in northern Japan is in such a delicate
condition that a future earthquake could trigger a disaster that would
decimate Japan and affect the entire West Coast of North America, a
prominent scientist has warned.
Speaking at a symposium on water
ecology at the University of Alberta in Canada, prominent
Japanese-Canadian scientist David Suzuki said that the Japanese
government had been "lying through its teeth" about the true extent of
the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
He attributed the cover-up
to the Japanese government's collusion with the Tokyo Electric Power
Company (TEPCO) that administers the plant.
"Fukushima is the
most terrifying situation that I can imagine," Suzuki said, adding that
another earthquake could trigger a potentially catastrophic, nuclear
disaster.
"The fourth [reactor] has been so badly damaged that
the fear is if there's another earthquake of a 7 or above then that
building will go and all hell breaks loose," he said, adding that the
chances of an earthquake measuring 7 or above in Japan over the next
three years were over 95 percent.
"If the fourth [reactor] goes
under an earthquake and those rods are exposed, then it's bye, bye,
Japan and everybody on the west coast of North America should be
evacuated. And if that isn't terrifying, I don't know what is," Suzuki
said.
Japanese officials have admitted for the first time that
thousands of people evacuated from areas near the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant may never be able to return home.
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