Reuters: Radiation tests underway on dead and diseased seals in Alaska — Suffering bleeding lesions, hair loss (PHOTO) « Enenews.com

Reuters: Radiation tests underway on dead and diseased seals in Alaska — Suffering bleeding lesions, hair loss (PHOTO)

Diseased seals in Alaska tested for radiation, Reuters, Dec. 27, 2011:

SOURCE: North Slope Dept. of Wildlife

Scientists in Alaska are investigating whether local seals are being sickened by radiation from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. […]

Biologists at first thought the seals were suffering from a virus, but they have so far been unable to identify one, and tests are now underway to find out if radiation is a factor. […]

Specifics

• Scores [multiples of twenty] of ring seals have washed up
• On Alaska’s Arctic coastline
• Since July

Symptoms

• Bleeding lesions on the hind flippers
• Irritated skin around the nose and eyes
• Patchy hair loss on the animals’ fur coats

John Kelley, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

• “We recently received samples of seal tissue from diseased animals captured near St Lawrence Island with a request to examine the material for radioactivity”
• “There is concern expressed by some members of the local communities that there may be some relationship to the Fukushima nuclear reactor’s damage”
• “[Test results would not be available for] several weeks”

See also:

• Alaska registers highest radiation in US after Fukushima
• Report: NRC analysis indicated “elevated child thyroid” in Alaska, Pacific island… With only 1 of 3 reactor cores releasing radiation (PHOTO)

Yet this strange report ran last week in a Fairbanks, Alaska newspaper: Officials: No Alaska radiation from Fukushima

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