SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT
Following the initial examination of some of the patients and the
contact with Japanese investigators, the Japanese~American scientific.
rapport deteriorated,
This was evidenced by many events as reported by
Mr. Eisenbud and the ABCC team.
This supplementary report, therefore,
will deal with data gleaned from the Japanese, corrections and additions
to the preliminary report, and some of the findings on two fish and a
ship monitored subsequently.
The blood counts on the crewmenbers of the Fukuryu Maru were obtained
from the Japanese investigators with the greatest difficulty.
Certainly
many subsequent blood counts were made, but even though both the Japanese
government and the Japanese physicians promised the American team access
to these figures, there were no counts made available after 8 April.
On this date Drs. Morton and Lewis visited nine patients at the Tokyo
University Hospital.
lesions,
reviewed.
All appeared much better as evidenced by skin
After visiting the patients, their white blood counts were
Striking to the American doctors and obviously missed by the
Japanese investigators was a severe granulocytopenia and a slight lympho-
cytopenia.
Regretfully, the figures cannot be reproduced as the American
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counts of 8 April. There certainly appeared to be an inverse relationship
between total white blood cell counts and the lymphocyte percentage,
The lower the white count, the higher the percentage of lymphocytes,
ranging as high as 70%.