Fukushima Kids Suffer Thyroid Cancer Up To 50x Normal Rate, New Study Finds
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
10/08/2015
Children living near the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer at a rate 20 to 50 times that of children elsewhere, according to a new study. As AP reports, most of the 370,000 children in Fukushima prefecture have been given ultrasound checkups since the meltdown and thyroid cancer is suspected or confirmed in 137 of those children. “This is more than expected and emerging faster than expected,” according to the lead author of the study, and raises doubts about the government’s less fearful view.
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