Japan: Unconfirmed social media report of over 3000 people with unexplained recurring nosebleeds

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Hat-tip Crof. I agree that this seems unlikely to be related to the ongoing incident at Fukushima Daiichi, but may represent some other undiagnosed illness.

http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2013/10/japan-nosebleeds-connected-with-fukushima.html

October 02, 2013
Japan: Nosebleeds connected with Fukushima?
A reader tweeted me earlier today to ask if I was covering the wave of nosebleeds reported via Twitter in Japan. I hadn't heard of it, but a Google search soon turned up items like this: (3) SUPPORT NEEDED: Over 3,000 ppl mostly of age under 30 are suffering from recurring massive nosebleeding in Japan.
Click through to the Facebook post and you'll find speculation that these nosebleeds have followed an "unconfirmed report" of a radioactive plume released from Fukushima on September 20.

Well, this is very exciting, and when ENE News posts items about a Japanese government coverup, it gets even more exciting. Search ABYZ News for Japanese mainstream media in English, and "nosebleeds" gets zero hits. Could this be genuine crowd-sourced digital disease detection?

We know governments are sometimes capable of maintaining silence on embarrassing outbreaks, as in Cuba, and the Soviets certainly tried to keep Chernobyl quiet. But that seems hard to imagine in a country with as lively and competitive a media as Japan's.

Moreover, a summary of the symptoms of radiation sickness does not list nosebleeds among them. Most of those complaining of the problem seem to be under the age of 30, which might be explained by young people's greater use of Twitter. But we don't know where the tweeters live or whether they have been downwind of Fukushima since September 20.

And it strains credulity (mine, anyway) to imagine that a major radioactive plume could be released over Japan without the whole world knowing about it very quickly. And even the dumbest government would know what happened after the Chernobyl coverup.

Perhaps the nosebleeds reflect some outbreak of unknown origin, and the phenomenon deserves to be investigated. But I really don't expect, on the evidence presented so far, that Fukushima is the source of the problem.

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See also: http://enenews.com/thousands-in-jap...ve-radiation-illness-but-forced-to-keep-it-se (questionable article)

 

[sharon sanders]

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[sharon sanders]

Re: Japan: Unconfirmed social media report of over 3000 people with unexplained recurring nosebleeds

I do not see anything in the Japanese press. Not any support articles either i.e. crowded hospitals etc. I see many comments on twitter but much of it is low quality. So...?

 

[Vibrant62]

Re: Japan: Unconfirmed social media report of over 3000 people with unexplained recurring nosebleeds

I think we can judge the twitter comments perhaps from the number of people who say THEY are experiencing these nose bleeds, or treating people with them. However, we should not dismiss social media reports entirely as this is where news of events that officialdom might like buried will emerge.. its just hard to judge how much weight to give them.

With regard to 'cover ups' - it would not just be the Japanese who would wish to keep such an event quiet. Anything that raises fear or concern in the minds of the public (in the minds of the powers that be) is an issue of national security, just about everywhere, which allows governments the world over to invoke controls over story releases i.e. what is published. Mainstream media is tightly controlled, more than most people realise in the UK and the US, and probably elsewhere.

 

[Giuseppe]

Re: Japan: Unconfirmed social media report of over 3000 people with unexplained recurring nosebleeds

We should remember that acute radiation syndrome includes also severe gastrointestinal hemorrhages, female genital bleeding, loss of hair, cute sores. If not promptly treated these conditions may evolve rapidly toward multiple organ failures.

Anyway, it is an event to follow closely.