Has anyone considered how absurd it is to be afraid of this minuscule amount of radiation when patients with hyperthyroidism (Graves Disease) are routinely receiving many thousands times this amount as a routine treatment without fear?

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Manhattan psychiatrist Drew Ramsey recalled that early in his career, he examined a patient with daily panic attacks and noticed a swelling on her shins, a classic sign of Graves' disease, a form of overactive thyroid that can cause severe anxiety.

WSJ: Confusing Medical Ailments With Mental Illness

In many remote villages, volunteers dug bodies from the wreckage and buried them in mass graves without proper religious ceremonies, fearing the spread of disease in the summer heat.

WSJ: Iranians Call Quake Effort Inadequate

Most were interred in mass graves or doused with petrol and burned because of the fear of disease spreading in the tropical heat.

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