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发帖数: 216 | 1 关于购买碘片的一封信。这是我email中从非常正式的渠道受到的。不知道加州的姐妹
们需不需要有备无患。我自己觉得无所谓。但是也许你会觉得准备一点比较安心。
This is posted on the Drudge Report:
U.S. Surgeon General Supports Buying KI as Precaution for West Coast
Residents
**The fear that a nuclear cloud could float from the shores of Japan to the shores of California has some people making a run on iodine tablets.
**Pharmacists across California report being flooded with requests.
Counter to state and county officials who Tuesday tried to keep people calm by saying that getting the pills wasn't necessary, U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin supported the idea as a worthy "precaution."
NBC Bay Area reporter Damian Trujillo asked her about the run on tablets and Dr. Benjamin said although she wasn't aware of people stocking up, she did not think that would be an overreaction. She said it was right to be prepared.
On the other side of the issue is Kelly Huston of the California Emergency Management Agency. Huston said state officials, along with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the California Energy Commission, were monitoring the situation and said people don't need to buy the pills.
"Even if we had a radiation release from Diablo Canyon (in San Luis Obispo County), iodide would only be issued to people living within a 10-mile radius of the plant," Huston added.
Santa Clara County's public health officer Dr. Martin Fenstersheib told the Mercury News he also does not recommend getting the tablets, adding some people can be severely allergic to the iodine.
"There is no reason for doing it," Fenstersheib told the paper.
Either way, the pills are hard to get. eBay prices have skyrocketed.
Message:
In 2001, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission revised its emergency planning regulations for nuclear power reactors to provide states the option to use potassium iodide (KI) tablets as a secondary protective measure for the public. KI would supplement evacuation and sheltering in the event of a nuclear reactor accident.
If taken within several hours of exposure to radioactive iodine, KI can
protect the thyroid gland. KI does not protect any other part of the body, nor does it protect against any other radioactive element. |
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