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SPIKE IN THYROID PROBLEMS

 

FOR BABIES IN US WEST COAST

FOLLOWING FUKUSHIMA DISASTER

The study followed children born in the US west coast between 1 and 16 weeks after the Fukushima disaster in March 2011, and found a 28% increase in thyroid problems compared with readings taken a year earlier in babies the same age. 

 

They will be more likely to suffer from congenital hypothyroidism (CH) than were kids born in those states during the same period one year earlier. CH results from a build up of radioactive iodine in our thyroids and can result in stunted growth, lowered intelligence, deafness, and neurological abnormalities—though can be treated if detected early.

The study was published in the Open Journal of Pediatrics by researchers affiliated with the Radiation and Public Health Project, the information further lends credence to previous documentation regarding the way in which radioactive fallout ended up on US soil.

Read more here: http://naturalsociety.com/third-us-west-coast-children-thyroid-problems-fukushima/

And here: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/study-almost-one-third-of-babies-born-after-fukushima-in-alaska-california-hawaii-oregon-and-washington-have-thyroid-problems.html