VICTIMS GET,
2 NEW DRUGS
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TWo Tiew drugs will be tried
out on radiation-burned Japanese
fishermen’ who
were
_show ered by radioactive ash
“when the U.S. test exploded a
hydrogen bomb at Bikini March
JJ, the Tokyo University medical
“department announced yesteray, the Associated Press re
‘ported.
Yr
;
One is the A
“4
ean Geyelop-
“ed EDTA(ethslen-ciamin-tetra
ia
acetic acid),
.
-
j The other is Tokyo Univer
‘sity’s own “Iriloysin,” which:
,Dr.
Kentaro
Shimizu “of
thei
‘University’s Hospital said helps,
.the body
increase
white
cor-2
"puseles destroved by radiation
* The two mest seriously radia-}
tiom-burned Ashermen of the?
“fishing ship No, 5 Fuk uryu:
iMaru are beng treated at the!
University Hospital, where cor-*
,Puscle count yesterday was re-}
hortted down. to 4,200 and 4,800*
‘as
compared
to
earlier in the week.
6,000 ‘each
The other 21 crewmen suffers
;ing from redicactivity shouid be}
'Prought 10 Tokyo for treatment,!
‘Dr. John J. Mor ton, director o:
{the Atom Bomb Casualty Com-
‘mission at Hiroshima, sald on
_arrival in Yaizu yesterday.
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Viewing victims in the municipal Kita Hospital, he said that
‘a “few here are more serious
_cases than the patients in
Tokyo.” He couldn't say how
‘Jong treatment would take for
‘amplete cure, but said he would
jreco:mmcnd moving the patients
, to the Japinese Government.
Dr, Moricn also said that the
No. 5 Fukuryu Maru still fs con-3
“taminated with radioactivity to
,@ dangerous Cegree, Saying
that it could be scrubbed off, he
'Gdvised that the ship be sent to
Yokosuka to be neutralized by
U.S. naval ayihorities, Kyodo
reported,
-
‘An expert of the U.S. Atomic
Energy Commission is scheduled to arrive here tomorrow to
join teams checking the effect
of the March 1 blast.
Dr. Ma-
sao Tsuzuki of Tokyo University Hospital seid ye-terday
that the AEC ie sendingits chief
of health and safety, “Dr. Mar-
mH E.sendad, to work with}
Japanese on the investigation,
» Meanwhte, Tokyo University
professors testing the particies
c:
ihe fishing ship,
pat the principal
“clum carbonicum.
They
3 that mat‘ter;
created by
a
had adhered to
but ated no rai
be detected,
»
<At-aics
“ed that In
from
fishing
| Ausiral!a,
@
, would require
grounds
Japanese
:
ship’
three additional,
| cays because of thi@ extension oft
| whe hazard area by the United,
Siates.
i
The Fisheries Board tmmeda!rad
tely started talks with the For:
eign Office concerning iis desir
to have the danger area and i:
jefective period reducedL by t
United States.
aoe
USS. tto Check Fish
For Radioactivity
WASHINGTON,
March
20
(AP)—The Food and Drug
Administration (FDR) said Fri-
day
its
inspectors
have
been
instructed to check incoming
shipments of tuna and shark
meat
bomb
from
activity.
the
test
.
area
Pacific
for
atom
radio-
The agency said inspectors,
at Los Angeles, San Francisco}
and
Seattle
will
use
Geiger;
counters for several weeks to,
Getermine
whether
there
is’
“any detectable contamination
with radioactivity.”
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