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Medical Science Attempting To Conquer Asian Diseases
Which Would Decide Military Victory In Another War
Tokyo (U.R) American
Army medical scientists are at
tempting to conquer deadly
Asiatic diseases which could de
cide military victory or defeat
In another war.
They are devising ways to
fight epidemics unknown in
the United States which have
haunted Asia for centuries.
Diseases lurking in China,
Formosa, Indochina, the Phil
ippines, Okinawa, Japan and
Korea are being studied.
"These diseases are a serious
problem both in peace and war,"
said Army Medical Corps Col.
Joe M. Blumberg, Atlanta, Ga.,
who is directing 102 medical
research projects.
Widespread Suffering
"They have caused wide
spread suffering and economic
losses in Asia for centuries.
Japanese doctors have learned a
great deal about them, and in
this command we are working
with Japan's top scientists to
solve common problems."
Scrub typhus, found only in
Asia, knocked out in two weeks
90 per cent of the men in one
American regimental combat
team on New Guinea in World
War II. Twenty per cent of the
New Guinea typhus victims
died.
Hemorrhagic fever, a mystery
killer about which little is
known, attacked 4000 United
Nations troops during the Ko
rean war. Ten per cent of its vic
tims died the first year. Im
proved treatment has reduced
the death rate to less than four
per cent, but the cause still is
unknown.
Sleeping Sickness
Japanese encephalitis, found
in most of Asia and sometimes
called sleeping sickness, infected
60 per cent of the French For
eign Legionnaires defending
Dien Bien Phu in the Indochina
war.
Encephalitis also struck Amer
ican troops in the darkest days
of the Korean war, when they
were fighting from a mere toe
hold inside the Pusan perimeter.
Medical scientists led by path
ologist Blumberg use ingenious
methods to unravel the mys
teries of diseases carried to man
by insects, snails and birds.
In Northern Japan, they cap
ture migratory birds known to
come from Siberia to determine
what diseases are prevalent be
hind the Iron Curtain. Birds
sometimes contract man's diseases.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1955
Six Pages
Hurricane Fliers Find Storm Enemy
Which Never Gives Up Effort To Destroy
Editor's note: Cmdr. E. L. Foster,
39, of Chattanooga, Tenn. Is the skip
per of VW4. the hurricane squadron
at the Jacksonville, Fla- Naval Air
Station, which ha been dolne most
of the reconnaissance of Hurricane
C onnie. Foster, after 15'i years in the
Navv in which he flew more than
4.000 hours, made his first 10'-? hour
flight Into the eye of a hurricane
Monday aboard a Navy Neptune pa
trol homher with a crew of 10. In
the following dispatch he compares
the adventure with World War II
combat in the South Pacific.
Bv CMDR. E. L. FOSTER. USN
Written For The United Press
Jacksonville. Fla. (U.R)
Does this compare with combat?
You can say that, brother.
The only difference between
a combat mission and going into
one of these babies is that in a
hurricane your enemy never
gives up its efforts to destroy
you.
o All you can see in the front
or to the sides is a solid sheet of
rain and gray darkness. And if
you have time to look down
we were flying as low as 300
feet you see that Atlantic
Ocean reaching up for you, and
it seems about to swallow you
up.
I don't think anyone with me
spent much time being scared.
But, I kept thinking of what
I'd do in an emergency, like if
one of my engines conked out.
And I didn't have too much time
to think about that.
My hands were full, just try
ing to hold on to the controls
until my co-pilot could spell me.
It was as rough and uncomfort
able as anything I've ever flown
through.
When I had a chance to look
down, it would look like the
wind was picking up that whole
damned ocean and trying to
send it up to us.
Has Veteran Crew ,
Right here, though, I'd like
to emphasize that I've got pretty
much of a veteran crew. Those
boy-, know what they're doing.
My co-pilot, Lt. (J. G.) Rocky
Farrek; of Kansas City, Mo., is
typical of the young fellows we
get from the training command.
He is perfectly capable of
taking the crew out alone and
doing the job right now. He has
been in the outfit for about two
(years and has between 1,600 and
j700 flying hours.
I'd like to stress the require
ment that every man on one of
these crews must operate as a
component of a team. Under the
circumstances in which we op
erate, every man aboard has a
specific assignment. Unless he
is doing the job,' the flight can
not be a success.
I'd say the most important
men on board were the two
navigators, Ens. Jim Morris,
and Lt. (J.G.) Dick Wing. If
they don't know where we are,
our value to the hurricane ad
visory service is lost.
In the Actual flight, most of
all, we just got physically tired
fighting the controls, trying to
keep the wings level and main
tain our air speed at about 165
knots (185 m.p.h.).
There is nothing worse than
that bumping around. It is a
force over which you have no
control.
All of the elements in a
storm like Connie are our mor
tal enemies the hurricane force
winds, the torrential rains, the
terrific heat, everything. And
unlike combat flight during the
war, these enemies never give
up.
The only way we can get
away from them is to leave the
storm. And we have to stay
until we are able to give weather
central what they ask for.
About the only relief we had
came when we went into the
calm eye of the hurricane and
then turned the plane's jets and
shot up to 10,000 feet to take
pictures.
Up there, it was fairly clear
and very calm. We could fly
around in a 20-mile diameter
without feeling a gust, and we
were high enough to cool off
for a while. Up there we took
our pictures.
One medical research worker
sailed aboard a United States
Navy ship from Japan to the
Philippines to study the inci
dence of diarrhea among crew
men after a rest stop at Hong
Kong, gateway to Red China.
Scrub typhus, a dreaded
Southwest Pacific disease dur
ing World War II, is one of the
major military medical prob
lems in Asia, Blumberg said. It
attacks nearly every organ in
the body.
The disease was described in
China in the 13th century.
Shrines were built in Japan
nearly 100 years ago to stop its
spread.
But only in 1947, after thous
ands of American servicemen
fell victim to scrub typhus, did
doctors come up with an effec
tive treatment with anti-biotic
"wonder drugs."
"Scientists can control but not
completely prevent scrub tyhpus.
Epidemics swept through U.S.
troops training near Japan's
famed Mount Fuji in 1948 and
1953, and one maneuver area
had to be abandoned.
Scrub typhus, a close relative
of America's Rocky Mountain
spotted fever, stalks its victims
in a dozen Asian nations and is
believed to be found along the
Yangtze river in China.
" "Chinese medical journals;"
Elumberg said, "contain so much
fiction and legend, along with
the facts that it is difficult to
make much sense out of them."
Blumberg's scientists are
working closely with Japan's
top typhus experts, including
Dr. Takeo Tamiya, president of
Japan's Association of Medical
Science, and Dr. Masami Kita
oka, chief of the Department of
Virus and Rickettsial Diseases
at the National Institute of
Health.
Blumberg's 406th Medical
general laboratory and a smaller
detachment studying tropical
fevers in Malaya are conducting
all the American Army's medi
cal research work in Asia.
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Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Pe uhw Writer
Washington (U.R) What's
new?
The hot humid days in Wash
ington recent
ly have pro
vided govern
ment workers
with what
could be call
ed a "daily
double." The
G-w o r k e r s
dont' get cut
loose unless
thermome t e r
hits a certain
Harman Nichols mark; but the
catcher is the humidity has to
hit another figure. The standard
for go home is 95 hot, 55 humid.
The odds against that combina
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runs down the line heat first,
humidity second. Like 96-52;
97-49; down to 100-38. A lot of
government offices have ther-.
mometers; but how does a gov
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when he sees one?
Perhaps the telephone opera
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the most enthusiastic in their
farewells to the adjourned Congress.
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