Environmental -- Japan
Having disregarded a state instruction to kill cattle left behind in areas near the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, some local farmers have been struggling to keep about 430 cows within a 20 km [12.4 mi] radius of the complex exposed to radiation.
The instruction was issued 2 months after fuel meltdowns at the plant in northeastern Japan were triggered by a massive earthquake and a tsunami on 11 March 2011, for about 3500 cows kept within the area adjacent to the Fukushima
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6225549&promed&0
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