This polar bear, one of nine captured and immobilized by USGS
scientists, shows hair loss and oozing sores on the left side of its
neck. The cause of the alopecia and lesions is still unknown.
A radioactive wave is headed toward the West Coast of the United
States courtesy of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Researchers say the radioactive ‘wave’ from Japan will hit the US
West Coast within the year and when it does it will have a deadly consequences
for marine life and the entire U.S. food supply.
So with nuclear power still wreaking havoc on the environment ~ why
are the Japanese about to flip on more of their nuclear reactors? ~ something
the Japanese people are strongly protesting against.
MARINE DIE-OFFS, POLAR BEARS LOSING FUR
AND SICK ANIMALS IN ALASKA AS RADIATION HITS WEST COAST
Posted by Alexander
Higgins
April 10, 2012
Marine and land life in Alaska is being sickened and dying off from an unknown causes as a wave of Fukushima nuclear radiation heads toward the coast of California.
The Raw Story just ran a corporate media article acknowledging
the discovery of Iodine radiation in kelp off the coast of California.
The story added few details to what has already been widely
reported in the alternative media.
Most notably was the iodine was first detected in the water
within a month of the Fukushima meltdown and the double speak over the safety
because the levels are supposedly relatively low.
Relative to what?
Sick seal from Alaska, also considered "a mystery".
RADIATION FROM JAPAN FOUND
IN KELP OFF U.S. WEST COAST
LOS ANGELESRadioactive iodine was found in kelp off the US West Coast following last year’s earthquake-triggered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, according to a new study.It was already known that radioactive iodine 131 (131-I), carried in the atmosphere, made it across the Pacific within days of the March 11, 2011 tsunami disaster, albeit in minuscule amounts.But marine biologists at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) discovered the radioactive isotope in ocean kelp, which is “one of the strongest plant accumulators of iodine,” within a month of the accident.“We measured significant, although most likely non-harmful levels of radioactive iodine in tissue of the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera,” said Steven L. Manley, author of the study with Christopher G. Lowe“Although it is probably not harmful for humans because it was relatively low levels, it may have affected certain fish that graze on the tissue because fish have a thyroid system that utilizes iodine.”
Source: Raw Story
What was most notable about the story was the following comment
which points out the polar bears in Alaska are losing their fur and there are
marine die-offs occurring in the Gulf of Alaska.
Is anyone talking about the recent strange illness
involving polar bears losing their fur? The reported marine die-offs in the
Gulf of Alaska?
Polar Bears Show Signs of Mysterious Illness
Biologists have found Polar Bears in the Beaufort Sea with hair loss and skin lesions. Those are the same symptoms that have sickened ice seals and walruses in the arctic since last summer and led the federal government to declare the incident an unusual mortality event. Scientists are just beginning an investigation into whether polar bears are suffering from the same thing.
“The first day we observed it was on March 21st and we had three captures and two of them had Alopecia, which is the skin loss and so it was like, ‘oh that’s interesting.’ Then we started picking it up on other animals in later march so it was like, this is more than normal.”
So far, the field scientists have found hair loss on nine of the
33 bears they’ve captured. The bears have skin lesions on their head, neck and
ears. Degange says they have found polar bears with similar symptoms since
1999, but the number of effected bears makes this year unusual:
“The bears appear to be healthy otherwise. We haven’t seen any dead bears, so it’s not a mortality event as far as we know. But the fact that its occurring at the same time as this unexplained mortality event with seals certainly raises the interest level.”
The biologists collected blood and tissues from the affected
bears to try to figure out if the symptoms are related to the mysterious
illness that has been found in ice seals and walruses.
Dozens of seals have died from the disease, but no walrus deaths
are attributed to it. Scientists don’t know yet if the walrus and seals are
suffering from the same thing. Although the veterinary pathologist who has done
most of the necropsies on the animals say the lesions look very similar under
the microscope. Julie Speegle is a spokesperson for the National Marine
Fisheries Service. She says its been a difficult case:
“We still don’t know what is causing the disease. But our scientists have ruled out a number of bacteria and viruses that are known to affect marine mammals.”
Speegle says the latest tests to turn up negative were for two
toxins that can cause harmful algae blooms.
“So just a couple more possible causes of illness that we have ruled out and we continue to go forward with studying samples and trying to find out what is causing this disease.”
SCIENTISTS BAFFLED AFTER FINDING
POLAR BEARS IN ARCTIC WITH SORES AND PATCHY FUR
Polar bears have been spotted with sores and missing patches of
fur, causing concern among wildlife experts that a mystery disease had become
widespread in the species.
Nine bears were being studied by biologists carrying out work
along the Arctic coast to see if the condition was related to similar symptoms
in seals and walruses.
The bears were among 33 seen near Barrow, Alaska and according
to the U.S. Geological Survey, the polar bears had ‘alopecia, or loss of fur, and
other skin lesions’.
Mystery illness: Nine polar
bears have been discovered with evidence of alopecia and skin lesions near
Barrow, Alaska
Tony DeGange, the chief biologist for the USGS in Alaska, told
Reuters: ‘There’s a lot we don’t know yet whether we’re dealing with something
that’s different or something that’s the same.’
Last summer, an unusually high number of 60 ring seals and
several walruses were found dead in the same area with hair loss and sores.
No dead polar bears have yet been found by scientists.
USGS stated: ‘Despite extensive testing for a wide variety of
well known infectious agents, the cause(s) of the
observed condition in walruses and ice seals remains unknown.
Plus the 5 million tons of contaminated flotsam on the way across
the Pacific headed towards the northwest.
http://enenews.com/us-govt-get…
Dangerous Radioactive ‘Wave’ To Hit Entire US Food Supply By Next Year
It is chilling when we realize that the catastrophe has only
begun and that the spent fuel ponds in the damaged reactor buildings are in
danger of collapse.
General
coverage here: http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/
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