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‘By Rene-Georgées” ifded i, Staff.Writer
- The world’s first H-bomb
surviving 22 victims have
been allowed by hospital
authorities to spend the New
_ Year season at their home
town of Yaizu, but a terrible
“secret about their physical
condition is being Jealously
kept from the public.
ment ‘of an animal which
usually has the form of a
‘nucleated cell with a long |
flagellate process or tail by
which . it. swims
actively
about. One spermatozoon, suf-
fices to_ fructify the femaje
ovule, .
. The
‘H-bamb
victims’ ao,
It is doubtful whether the ‘spermatozoa have either an.
or oe
victims know it themselves: - _imperfect nucleated cell,
even if their “heads” are
All the 22 H-dusted fisher- complete” they are motionless
men have been sterilized by and lack'in normal activity,
the
radioactivity ‘in their and are generally abnormal.’
bodies and shall never be - Hone of these imperfect’
able to have children again,
spermatozoa should fructify:
‘If, against all probabilities the ovule, which would be exrare’ since .these
a child should be born, there tremely
are high probabilities that it spermatozoa do not have the
required activity to reach it,
will not be normal.
Although this is a fact of there is a high degree of
Vital Interest to the whole of
humanity, the authorities informed ofit have not deem’
ed fit to publicize it yet.
An analysis of the patients’
spermatic fluid at the time of
their hospitalization in March
“showed that about half of
them were already sterilized.
A recent analysis revealed
that radioactivity had stopped the production’ of normal
spermatezoa in aH patients
during their 10-month hos-
probability that an abnormal
child would be born, as has!
been the case with some A-.
bomb victims at
and Nagasaki.
Hiroshima ;
The, Japanese doctors who:
were connected. with the care.
of. the H-bomb patients have?-- so far guarded the secret’
jealously from the Japanese”
public
reasons,
for
unexplained |
The secret, however, has
been
revealed
under
the?
strictest confidence to one |
pitalization.
The number of their sper- Japanese’ Diet member, one,
matozoa has in the first place European doctor and one Eu-?
newspaperman. AH:
been
drastically
reduced, ropean
microscopic analysis showed. three are persons of the’.
A spermatozoon is the es- highest integrity within their.
sential. male fertilizing ‘ele- respective careers,
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