“at . . oF : ‘ ae . ' |, oe wo. + ‘ee Se S : : 5 ie , at on he | Now thidory on Radiation Sickness OC , 4 ‘Sadaé “YOSHIKAWA, Director of the Mito Hospital of the Hitachi Seisaku (manufacturing) Co., and Kazuo HOSOYA, chief of the research and inspection section of the Mito State Hospital, who have been conducting radiation injury tests on mice since Aug. 4 in the cobalt 60 irradiation room of the Japan | _ Atomic Energy Institute at Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki prefecture, announced on Aug. 10 that th first cause for death due to strong radiation is the septicemia accompanying serious leukopenia and that blood transfusion and the use of antibiotics are proper for the treatment of radiation sickness. This assertion is quite contrary to the established theory that the direct cause for radiation death lies in tha lowering of hematogenic functions by tha destruction of the liver and the marrow. — When . » 2 crew member of No. 5 Fukuryu Maru which was showered with 6yadioactive dust at Bikini, died in Septembar,. 1954, Amarican medical circles ' ' . Said he may have died of septicamia caused by a blunder committed in blood - transfusion. Ths tests conducted by the two Japanese doctors, however, have proved that septicemia is caused directly by radiation. This will endorse ‘the Japanese contention that was killed by an H-bomb test. YOSHIKAWA and HOSOYA are scheduled to release the details of the results of their tests at the medical gathering of the sanitarium of the state hospital to be held early October this year and at the radiation therapists. maeting scheduled for February nextyear. a as : . . + tae _ . oe we ST Ae ee meg + en ge oy me ee ‘ : saean? hae " ro. cf “arte OF “aie Sele aes Moon - : pees: . une ee tyst wiPP ety wee ahes werk PRIVACY ACT EMOVED crtMATERIAL REM Bee ms a | DotARCHIVES oe