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us the men were divided into ve different groups. All of them were
forced to drink water contaminated with typhoid germs and were then

obser ved to see what effect thes e pathogenic germs had in the different

cases, depending on whether preventive inoculations had been per formed

or not, how many times, and in what quantities. Most of thes e men

contracted typhoid. Exactly what percentage I do not remember ; at all
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events 12 or 13 of the men died.”
Dr. Futagi Hideo who experimented with BCG on Manchurian children,

testing dosages and protection, concluded that with CI Tuberculosis

hominis, “all doses produced militar y tuberculosis which was fatal within

one month in those injected with 10.0 and 1.0 mg. e others were severely
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ill, lived longer, but probably died later.”

Other scientists did research on songo fever, typhus, glanders, botulism,

brucellosis, gas gangrene, in uenza, meningococcus, plague, smallpox,

tetanus, tick encephalitis, and tularemia.

ese studies enabled the Japanes e army to better prepare their soldiers for

the battle eld. In an Interrogation Report No. 52 prep ared by the Joint

Intelligence Center Paci c Ocean Areas on June 6, 1944, Ken Kato revealed

the types of vaccines the Japanese Army administered. His troop was given

immunization against typhoid, paratyphoid A, paratyphoid B, bacillar y
dysenter y, botulinus, and cholera. Gas gangrene and tet anus prophylaxis

immunization were administered to the wounded. Salmonella

immunization also was administered. e vaccines were produced at the

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Army Medical School in the Ushigome section of Tokyo.
At the end of the war, the allies occupied the Empire of Japan and
compiled a list of Japanese drugs and medicines at the direction of the Chief