Dramatic increase in US flu hospitalizations since 3-11 (Fukushima disaster)

By Peter Daley -

The Flu Is Ravaging America This Year!

After Fukushima I kept a close eye on the latest worldwide flu statistics using a publicly available service, Google Flu Trends. My reasoning was people’s immune systems would become weakened by exposure to the the huge Fukushima radiation releases, particularly those people living in the Northern hemisphere. If that was the case, then it would likely show up in the flu stats. Google Flu Trends was an excellent resource to keep track of this. In the early stages of observation a trend started to appear. Flu epidemics where increasing in severity. Then Google stopped updating the stats. Getting hold of the most recent worldwide flu statistics then became very difficult. Recently Zerohedge published a short article “The Flu Is Ravaging America This Year” and it had an excellent info graphic (see chart below). What does it show? A dramatic year on year increase in the number of flu hospitalizations in the USA since 2011! 19th February 2018 –

The Flu Is Ravaging America This Year

Extract:

It took 25 weeks for the hospitalization rate to reach that point during the deadly 2014-2015 season. During a mild year, an average of 12,000 Americans die due to the flu and judging by the current trend, 2017-18 is on course to surpass 2014-15 in lethality. More than 80 percent of flu deaths usually occur among the elderly and people with underlying health problems.

This year, seemingly healthy individuals are being infected and hospitalized at higher rates than the historical average. The CDC has reported that 63 children have already died during the current season.

Info graphic:

https://infographic.statista.com/normal/chartoftheday_12902_the_flu_is_ravaging_the_us_this_year_n.jpg

Article:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-19/flu-ravaging-america-year

  8th March 2018 – TEPCO Admits Fukushima-Radiation-Blocking “Ice Wall” Is Failing Extracts: The wall’s failure, among other factors, is preventing the company from removing all of the radioactive melted fuel at the site, where one of the world’s worst-ever nuclear disasters unfolded seven years ago when a tsunami struck the area. When the “ice wall” was announced in 2013, TEPCO assured skeptics that it would effectively limit the flow of groundwater into the plant’s basement, where the water becomes contaminated with radioactive debris. But since the wall became fully operational in August 2017, an average of 141 metric tonnes of groundwater has seeped into the reactor and turbines each day – worse than the 132 metric tonnes a day that seeped into the ruined plant during the nine months before the wall’s completion. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-08/tepco-admits-fukushima-radiation-blocking-ice-wall-failing Comment: A 1992 German risk study of a NPP core meltdown on the upper Rhine river they suggest using an ice wall, plus concluded that: 1. Strontium-90 levels would skyrocket, and reach a peak level around 5,000 days later. Strontium-90 levels would then stay high for around another 40,000 days + ! We are already seeing reports of skyrocketing levels of Strontium being detected in the ground water tests, at the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe site. 2. Cesium-137 would reach peak levels after 10,000 days. Interestingly, Tepco has tried to implement the counter measures suggested in this document, at the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe site. They have not had much success so far. (Note: The charts in this study are log scale.) http://www.irpa.net/irpa8/cdrom/VOL.1/M1_97.PDF If this study is correct, these increases will continue long into the future! All the wars and strife in the world at present, is analogous to people fighting each other on a sinking boat. We urgently need the whole world to cooperate, and focus on dealing with the ongoing Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe.

Leuren Moret adds, “There is no cure or vaccination for a virus – they evolve too fast and area always mutating faster than a vaccine can be made for the rapidly changing nature of the virus.”

More follow-up discussion - http://caferadlab.com/thread-2219-post-4792.html#pid4792

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