BRAWM Team, any plans to monitor seafood?

http://www.countercurrents.org/kishner110509.htm

The virus seen in the Salmon mentioned in the article linked above this comment is extremely troubling.

But it was not unforeseen.

Andrei Sakharov predicted that global radioactive fallout would mutate viruses and bacteria which humans and other creatrures have no resistance to (unless and until the "fittest" survive to fight it off BUT with MORE fallout the bacteria and viruses will keep mutating) Things like SARS and MRSA may be typical as may be the leukemia causing the Salmon pandemic.

Excerpt of article:

"... back in the 1950s, the so-called ‘father of the [Soviet] hydrogen bomb’ predicted that the radioactive fallout from the ‘Cold War’ could accelerate the rise of mutant pathogens, including influenzas.

"Andrei Sakharov, the atomic scientist-turned-critic, wrote in his book 'Memoirs' (published last decade) that in the late 1950s he suggested 'that a global increase in mutations of bacteria and viruses...might have been an important factor in the spread of such diseases as diphtheria in the nineteenth century, or the influenza epidemic, and that low-level radiation might further increase the rate of mutations.’

"Sakharov's 1950’s prediction may have come true according to a rare grouping of scientists who have connected the rise of certain diseases and disorders with the peaking of radioactive emissions from nuclear power plants on regional scales or nuclear testing on a global scale." (more at url)

I hesitate to even raise this spectre as it is dso unpleasant but wanted the BRAWM team to be cognizant of it (if they were not already).

Because the evolutionary rate of bacteria and viruses is so quick they quickly mutate when exposed to fallout such as from Fukushima, Chernobyl and nuclear power plant radionuclide emissions and effluents. We do not evolve quickly enough to develop immunity to these new strains.

Add to that the damage to the immune system when the thyroid is damaged by radio-iodine or other radionuclides and our internal organs, heart, liver, bowels, etc and we are weakened overall and our bodies are more susceptible to these new mutant viruses and bacteria.

I urge BRAWM team members to read the article, think about this, and dig deeper.

Again, I was originally told about this by Dr. Ernest Sternglass and he sent me a copy of the now declassified article Sakharov wrote on this back in the 1950's in the Journal of Soviet Atomic Scientists. It is a critically important issue because we must not only worry about cancer but other dieases and mutations in all species, including bacteria and viruses.

Finally, even if one does not get thyroid cancer from these socalled "minute" traces of radioiodine, people can and will develop hypothyroidism and other thyroid disorders which compromise their immune system, cause emotional and psychological problems due to stress and endocrine system disruption, heart problems, chronic fatigue, depression, and even symptoms of bipolar disorder (which are not bipolar disorder but hypothyroid disorder causing the symptoms (see DSM 4).

In any case I would urge the BRAWM team also to contact the folks examining the Pacific Salmon, get some, test them for radiation. Biologists and marine biologists always leave this component of the potential problem unexamined because they simply can't imagine it and because the inhdustry is so effective at convincing people that low level radiation is NOT dangerous and is not anything to worry about.

Viruses, microbes, and bacteria are TINY and like radiation damn near invisible without expensive detection devices. But IF you have those devices and can look at them (especially the dna) and have some baseline info, one can observe these mutations and there may well be a correlation to radiation and the decline of the Pacific Salmon that NO ONE is even looking for (until maybe now).

I HOPR BRAWM steps up. You may be the saviours of a lot of people if your work demonstrates such contamination and epidemiologists can use the data to demonstrate causality and correlations so that remedative steps can be undertaken.

One final note: Dr. Sternglass said that we also should never neglect to consider also the synergistic effect of chemical contamination with the radionuclide contamination which may multiply such problems. So even if chemicals may be a likley suspected cause one needs to examine the fish tissue and bone for radionuclides and chemical contamination (I'm think plastics especially and bisphenol (sp?) etc)

I hope someone at BRAWM or UC Berkeley is taking a look at this. Pacific Salmon and local freshwater fish /wildlife should be tested.