Four new deaths in Taiwan from University of Kobe Japan - created H5N1-H1N1 "novel" viruses

Recombinant viruses responsible for deaths only months after creation, Kobe University's Yoshihiro Kawaoka, PhD student Teridah Ernala created H5N1-H1N1 viruses to jump species, go airborne, be resistant to any known antiviral drugs;* Taiwan not utilizing quarantine like Singapore and SARS in 2003, viruses will spread like wildfire

Taipei Times
Staff Writer with CNA
01/08/2012

The DOH said that those with the flu virus should stay at home and avoid public places, especially infants, toddlers and the elderly

A total of 71 new cases of influenza with complications have been recorded, with four more fatalities, since Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said.

    As of Friday, health officials had confirmed 366 flu cases with complications, 18 of which were fatal, it said.

The latest victims were a five-year-old boy in Taoyuan County, a 62-year-old man in Chiayi County, an 85-year-old woman in New Taipei City and a 74-year-old man in Miaoli County, all of who died after contracting Type B or Type AH3 influenza.

None of the individuals who died had been vaccinated, the CDC said.

   The CDC said that even though the number of flu cases was half of that recorded in the same period a year ago, there was still a 5 percent mortality rate.

    The Department of Health (DOH) advised those infected with the flu virus to stay at home and avoid public places, especially those at high risk of developing flu-related complications, such as infants, toddlers, the elderly and patients with chronic diseases.

   In the event that individuals contract such symptoms as fast or labored breathing, bluish or gray skin or lips, chest pain, low blood pressure, thick or blood-streaked sputum and fever lasting for 48 hours or more, they should see a doctor or seek immediate treatment at a hospital, the department said.

    A total of 1,727 special influenza clinics have been set up nationwide to fight the virus.

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Photo exhibition shows pictures of animals left behind in Fukushima no-go zone

Since Mainichi can't or won't show pictures of radiation poisoned, starved animals in Fukushima dead zone, we will

Mainichi Daily News
01/08/2012

SAPPORO --

A photo exhibition showing dozens of pictures of animals left abandoned within the no-go zone around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant started here on Jan. 6.

Dead horses inside exclusion zone

The exhibition, being held in an underground passageway near Sapporo Station, puts on display some 60 pictures of pet animals and livestock that were left abandoned within the 20-kilometer zone around the troubled nuclear plant after the nuclear crisis broke out in March last year.

    Hiroshi Hoshi, 56, a company executive from Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, who currently lives in Tokyo, took the pictures. By the end of last year, he had taken custody of some 100 animals that were left within the no-go zone. After learning about his activities, some 10 people in Sapporo planned to hold the exhibition, wishing to rescue as many animals as possible.

Dead cows inside exclusion zone

Among the photos are a picture of a dog whose head got trapped in a fence after it tried to eat food beyond the fence, a cow that starved to death, and a dog weakened by skin disease.

The exhibit is running through 7 p.m. on Jan. 7. Organizers are also asking for donations.

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Traditional burning of New Year's decorations canceled due to fear of spreading radiation

Deluding selves into thinking "it's over, radiation good for us" Japanese people doom world to continued exposure to Fukushima deadly radiation:  Apparently give a damn only about themselves, screw rest of world; reference WWII Japanese Unit 731, Kobe University creates "novel" H5N1-H1N1 viruses

Mainichi Daily News
01/08/2011

FUKUSHIMA --

A traditional event of burning New Year's decorations will be canceled at a number of shrines in Fukushima Prefecture this year due to concerns about radioactive contamination of the decorations following the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, it has been learned.

Fukushima children already being diagnosed with
thyroid cancers

 Kasuga Shrine in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, decided to halt the annual event called "Dondoyaki," in which New Year's decorations such as "kadomatsu" gate pines and other auspicious ornaments are burnt on its premises in mid-January. Part of the town falls within an area advised to evacuate.

    "It is regrettable that we cannot return these objects to the gods after burning them," said Tadashi Yoshida, the 80-year-old head priest at the shrine, in front of the piled-up decorations that the shrine parishioners have brought into its premises. The used decorations include sacred ropes, charms and household altars, as well as gate pines and other good luck ornaments.

    The tradition of burning New Year's decorations is held across Japan around mid-January. At Kasuga Shrine, which is said to date back to the early Heian Period, Yoshida has held the traditional event sometime around Jan. 6 to 15 every year, wishing for the happiness of the parishioners for the year, since he took on his position half a century back.

To maintenance workers lost, later found
dead from radiation

The Yamakiya district of the town of Kawamata was designated for planned evacuation after the nuclear crisis began at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in March last year. Even though Kasuga Shrine is located outside the zone, it made the decision to halt this year's burning event out of concern for children who commute to nearby elementary and junior high schools, who could potentially be exposed to radioactive materials emitted from the burning. After consulting with the Kawamata Municipal Government, the shrine decided that the possibility that straws and gate pines made with local pines are contaminated with radioactive materials cannot be denied.

Body recovery inside "dead zone" required
radiation suits

Yoshida plans to gather local parishioners to sort out the used decorations before offering a prayer for them and putting them out to garbage collection.

"I wonder why the nuclear disaster couldn't have been minimized," said a teary Yoshida in front of the ornaments that he calls "objects in which gods reside."

    Similar moves are also seen at other shrines in Fukushima Prefecture. At Kaiseizan Daijingu shrine in Koriyama, the annual "Dondoyaki" event usually held from the afternoon of Jan. 6 throughout the evening of Jan. 7 will be downsized to a daytime-only event on Jan. 7.

    "The decision is up to each shrine after consulting with local municipalities," said an official of the prefecture's Shinto shrine agency.

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Tunnel full of radioactively-contaminated water found at Fukushima nuclear plant

Scandal of the century: Japan, U.S. governments - among others - continue to LIE and COVER UP REAL RADIATION RELEASE DATA; Japan forfeits place among civilized nations, along with Japanese and U.S. "mainstream media" now responsible for all radiation deaths worldwide

Mainichi Daily News
01/08/2012

A massive amount of water contaminated with radiation has been found in a tunnel at a waste treatment facility at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, the plant operator said.

Fukushima melted-down reactor continues to
smoke and burn

The radioactive water amounts to 142 cubic meters, enough to fill 710 drums, and it contains about 100 becquerels of radioactive cesium per liter, according to Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO). Company officials said that the radioactive water has not leaked into the sea from the tunnel.

    TEPCO suspects that the water comes from rain that flowed into the tunnel and got contaminated with radiation.

    In late December last year, about 220 cubic meters of radioactive water, enough to fill 1,100 drums, were found in another tunnel on the premises of the power station. The high concentration of radioactive substances in that water led TEPCO to suspect that the water leaked from a facility storing radioactive water from the basement of a reactor building.

 

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