“ATOM DISEASE" SUSPECTED
Japanese Seamen In Hospital
(Rec. 8 p.m.) TOKYO, June 4. Five of the crew of the Japanese vessel Jintsugawa Maru, which was operating in the Pacific in March and April during the American hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini, were admitted to hospital in Osaka today with suspected “atom disease.”
: The five men were the first cases needing hospital treatment since 23 of the crew of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru were affected by a shower of atom dust from the Bikini explosion on March 1. The Osaka hospital authorities said today that the men’s condition was not grave, and that they were recovering.
Thtey said that they were still checking whether radiation sickness was caused by radioactivity from the hydrogen explosions. The Jintsugawa Maru was carrying phosphate ore from the Tuamotu Islands in the Pacific and was reported to -be about 1200 miles away from Bikini when the March 26 test was held, and about 1400 miles away at the time of the April 6 explosion.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27369, 7 June 1954, Page 9
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