Alaska: seals and walruses die. Does Fukushima have anything to do with it?

    Alaska: seals and walruses die. Does Fukushima have anything to do with it?

    Dead or sick seals and walruses. This is the sad balance that emerged from some expeditions made last year in Alaska. And it is feared that the cause could be linked to the Fukushima nuclear disaster


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    A real death of seals and walruses on the Bering Strait, Alaska. And the cause, guess what, could be related to radiation. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found unusual the thing.




    Expeditions to Alaska since mid-July have brought to light more than 60 dead animals and 75 found sick or with skin lesions and loss of hair. In addition, scientists, in collaboration with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, found in an investigation last fall that several walruses reported body sores and patchy hair loss.

    However, the scientific studies carried out subsequently excluded the possibility that it could be a particularly percolating virus. The cause therefore is to be found elsewhere. Indeed, scientists have failed to isolate a single cause. On the fabric samples of the animals found dead have been carried out several studies, but all the results so far have given negative results.

    Dead, without one explanation apparent. But research continues. Other tissue samples will be examined for several other factors including signs of immune system diseases, fungi, toxins, contaminants and most importantly radiation. Some of the seals and walruses would indeed have undersized lymph nodes, possibly a sign of a weakened immune system. However, the results of these tests will not be available for several weeks. Meanwhile, the local population fears that all these deaths may in some way be linked to the radiation from Fukushima.

    Scientists conducting the investigation, however, believe this is unlikely, given that the levels of radiation detected in Alaska are relatively low. Water tests did not show high levels of radiation in the United States, in Pacific waters after the earthquake and tsunami that struck the United States last March. Japan.


    But if there really is a link between the dead and Fukushima, it will not take long to find out since among the tests carried out there are also those to trace the presence of Cesium-134 and Cesium-137 which, we know by now, are very dangerous.


    Francesca Mancuso

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