According to overseas news reports, there are more than 200 syringes scattered all over the coastal beaches of Hakodate City, Japan, and even many float on the surface of the sea. These syringes are about 15 cm long and are printed in foreign languages. In this regard, the local government appealed to the public that once such an unknown syringe is found, do not touch it directly, and immediately contact the relevant local personnel to deal with it.
To this day, the reason for the sudden appearance of a large number of syringes in Japanese waters remains a mystery. Previously, a large number of needle-attached syringes were found in the waters of many parts of Japan, and the total number of recoveries exceeded 5,000. What's going on here?
Unidentified syringes have been found several times off the coast of Japan
Japanese media outlet FNN reported that the first discovery of the unidentified syringe was in Kotojihama, Kyoto Prefecture on February 19, followed by Hyogo Prefecture, Tottori Prefecture, Shimane Prefecture and Fukui Prefecture. When the FNN reporter went to Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture to understand the situation, he found that a large number of syringes had not been cleaned, scattered all over the beach, and many were buried in seagrass and sand.
These syringes are about 10 cm long, some with needles, and it is suspected that they have been used. The packaging is printed in Russian characters and is marked as a medical syringe. From the coast of Tottori and Shimane prefectures, about 2,600 can be found in total. Some local residents expressed concern that if the syringe was used, there was a risk of infectious viruses, and they hoped that the authorities could recover it as soon as possible. The Japan Coast Guard called on the public not to touch the syringe if found, and to contact the local governments in the region.
Why are there so many syringes?
1, packaging printed in Russian, local residents suspect that it is a foreign experimental syringe
According to Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun online, the number of syringes found in Shimane Prefecture has exceeded 2,600. The syringes were printed with Russian characters on their packaging, and together with the needles were washed off the coast of Japan, it was not confirmed whether they had been used.
Tottori Prefecture conducted a recycling operation on February 28. A 12-person squad was used to recover a 20-kilometre range of the eastern coast and a total of about 1,200 syringes were recovered, meaning that nearly 4,000 syringes had been found so far. Norio Ikeda, head of the River Division, who participated in the operation, said: "There have been no incidents of syringe drifting to Japan in the past. The reason for these Russian syringes drifting to Japan is still unknown. ”
In this regard, there are also suspicions that the war between Ukraine and Russia is related. These syringes may be evidence that Russian soldiers injected stimulants into the war. In addition, there are also opinions that these are new crown vaccines, which may be deliberately spread by the Russian side as retaliatory actions. However, Japanese netizens believe that according to the distance between Japan and Russia and the currents, if these syringes are drifting from Russia, it is not too likely.
2. Or related to the new crown vaccine
Due to the epidemic, countries are nervously developing a new crown vaccine. Vaccines are one thing, and syringes for vaccination are also a place to care about.
The President of Serbia once said, "Vaccines are harder to get than nuclear weapons!" "Right now, only 9 vaccines are approved for use worldwide. Because of the particularity of the vaccine, syringes are also very difficult to get started. It is necessary to choose a syringe with a low dead angle, because the ordinary syringe is a 3 ml or 5 ml syringe, there will be residue in use, in order to make the syringe play the best use, countries have begun to find a suitable factory and start to buy a syringe. In Japan in particular, vaccines are wasted because there are not enough syringes.
At present, Japan is still urgently purchasing related syringes, and it is also possible that the government procurement emergency accidentally fell into the ocean.
3, some people speculate that perhaps the container of the transportation company fell into the sea and drifted along the ocean current
In addition to the first two special cases, it is also possible that the containers transporting the goods fell into the sea, and these needles also drifted with the ocean currents. But these syringes, large areas, large scales, and several kinds of drifted over. This situation does not make sense on the sea. We can only think that this situation is possible, but it is unlikely.
Japanese seawater has both nuclear radiation and needles, can their seafood still be eaten?
For stubborn Chinese, we may think more about whether their seafood can still be eaten.
In February 2021, Fukushima released the 2020 Resident Health Survey, which shows that the impact of seawater pollution on nearby residents is large. Radiation pollution will affect the growth of marine organisms, affect their DNA, and make their bodies deformed. If you eat a large number of radioactively contaminated products for a long time, you will accumulate too much radioactive material in the body.
The earth has a lot of water resources, but that doesn't mean we can use it at will, or even misuse it. Seawater is saltwater and cannot be directly drunk, and in addition to seawater, we can use very little water resources. For water pollution, we should protect the environment.
Water pollution, not only affects the cleanliness of the lake, but also affects the growth of aquatic organisms, a reasonable and healthy environment, in order to let the sea creatures grow healthily, if the sea is polluted, it will affect the growth of marine life, and even make marine life die and become extinct. It will also affect the survival activities of human beings. Only by respecting nature and respecting the rational mobilization of water resources can the earth work. While mining, while protecting, is the right thing to do.
Protect the oceans
The maritime events in Japan are also a revelation for us. We should reasonably protect our current marine environment. Protection should start from the following links:
1. Establish marine nature reserves
The establishment of marine nature reserves can preserve the richness of natural resources and the natural background of the ocean, protect the original appearance and state of the ocean, and protect the original characteristics of species from being lost; It can protect, restore, develop, introduce and reproduce biological resources, preserve the diversity of biological species, and eliminate and reduce man-made adverse effects.
2. Sewage discharge treatment
The discharge of domestic sewage and industrial wastewater will bring a large number of germs and toxic substances to the ocean, resulting in eutrophication of seawater. If we want to improve the marine environment, we must pay attention to the issue of emissions.
3. Prohibit overexploitation of the ocean
Overexploitation such as land reclamation and energy extraction will destroy the habitat of organisms, making organisms threaten to extinction, and indiscriminate fishing and killing will also cause a sharp decline in the number of species.
4. Develop marine science and technology
Strengthen scientific research on biodiversity conservation and marine environmental pollution control, and provide technical support for the protection of marine life.