Gov’t Report: Over 1,750 navy sailors suffer from ‘ill-defined conditions’ after exposure to Fukushima radiation while aboard USS Reagan — ‘Significant increases’ in male infertility and child birth complications — Dozens have thyroid disorders, many spontaneous abortions — Veteran: ‘Extreme measures’ used to cover this up (AUDIO)
ENENews.com
August 3rd, 2014
Compiled from the Department of Defense’s Final Report to the Congressional Defense Committees — “Radiation Exposure” (pdf), June 19, 2014:
> “Disease/symptom groups where RONALD REAGAN sailors had a statistically significant increase in incidence compared to the control population*”:
Diseases of the respiratory system: 931 of 4,843 USS Reagan sailors (112% of control pop.)
Diseases of the digestive system: 722 of 4,843 sailors (116% of control pop.)
Diseases of the genitourinary system [reproductive organs/urinary system]: 247 of 4,843 sailors (134% of control pop.)
Male Infertility: 38 of 3,927 male sailors (148% of control pop.)
Complications of pregnancy, child birth, puerperium [Six week period after birth]: 191 of 916 female sailors (120% of control pop.)
Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions [“Practically all categories in this group could be designated as ‘not otherwise specified’ or ‘unknown etiology’ or ‘transient'”]: 1,752 of 4,843 sailors (117% of control pop.)
*Control population: “Sailors who were not deployed to OT [Operation Tomodachi], but who deployed sometime during the two years prior to March 11, 2011.”
> Additional diseases/symptoms listed in the report:
Disorders of thyroid gland: 35 of 4,843 sailors (124% of control pop.)
Diseases of male genital organs: 187 of 3,927 male sailors (117% of control pop.)
Female Infertility: 23 of 916 female sailors (124% of control pop.)
Certain condition originating in the perinatal period [immediately before & after birth]: 14 of 916 female sailors (138% of control pop.)
Spontaneous abortion: 16 of 916 female sailors (103% of control pop.)
Interview with retired U.S. Navy Lt. Steve Simmons, who served on the USS Ronald Reagan during Japan relief mission after 3/11, Nuclear Hotseat, July 29, 2014 (at 24:45 in): It honestly feels that they’re going to extreme measure to cover up this incident. Or to get the public to buy into the rhetoric that there is absolutely nothing wrong… inundate them with a bunch of junk… and try to get them to believe what they want… that well over 100 sailors, including one dead, is making this up, that they’re all fine. I don’t get it, I honestly have a hard time wrapping my head around this one — to figure out why they would go to such great lengths to even entertain the fact that — we already know Tepco lied, it’s already been proven that Tepco lied. So why is it so difficult to go back… and say, ‘OK, we’re sorry. There is going to be the potential for health problems.’
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