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Fukushima's children at centre of debate over rates of thyroid cancer
2014-03-09 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When doctors found several tiny nodules on his 12-year-old daughter's thyroid gland, Toshiyuki Kamei refused to let parental fear get the better of him. The symptoms are not uncommon, and the probability that they will develop into something more serious is low. Yet Kamei can be forgiven for occasional moments of doubt: his daughter, Ayako, is one of almost 400,000 children who were living in Fukushima on 11 March 2011 the start of the world's worst nuclear accident for a quarter of a century....
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