1 July 2016

Japan's radiation problem - They lied to us.

1 July 2016 · 2:24

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Summary

On travel day 75, after seven weeks in Japan, itchy red patches appeared on his arms and hands and progressively worsened. Creams failed; inflammation, dryness, flaking, uncontrollable scratching, and sleepless nights followed. He blamed alleged radiation contamination, researched Wikipedia, and concluded—without medical confirmation—that he had contagious, incurable radiation poisoning.

Insight

Escalating health fear becomes darkly comic self-diagnosis, ending in imagined mutation as “Skin Man”.