the author of the initial paper which attempts to draw a link between infant mortality in the us and the fukushima accident, joseph mangano and his colleague ernest j. sternglass, both of the radiation and public health project, were also active publishing work attempting to draw a causality between infant death rates in pennsylvania due to the three mile island accident(tmi-2) in 1979, but likewise, these earlier papers conclusions have failed to be corroborated by any other peer reviewed paper or follow up epidemiology study, with sternglass's paper being widely critiqued. in their final 1981 report, the pennsylvania department of health, examining death rates within the 10-mile area around tmi for the 6 months after the accident, said that the tmi-2 accident did not cause local deaths of infants or fetuses.