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moved into the village everyone scattered. The only ones left were those
who were too sick to move. The number of people coming down with the
disease kept increasing. Cholera produces a face like a skeleton, vomiting,

and diarrhea. And the vomiting and defecating of the people lying sick
brought flies swarming around. One after the other, people died."
Captain Kojima's further testimony in the second section of this book
offers additional details on this type of operation, as well as other comments
on the role of the army in Manchuria.

Epidemic Hemorrhagic Fever (EHF)

The Asahi newspaper of April 2, 1943 carried the following story.

ANOTHER VICTORY SHOUT
FOR MILITARY MEDICINE

Strange Sickness inNorthern Manchuria Conquered Pathogen for
terrible hemorrhagic fever is discovered

The Medical Corps of the invincible Imperial Army raises another
victory shout, with a triumph over a strange and unusual disease in
northern Manchuria that has been puzzling military and civilian
medicine. It has been discovered that the disease is carried by ticks.

Not only has the method of transmission of the disease been
discovered, but a preventive measure has been established, as well, and
development of a treatment seems close at hand.
The pathogen was unknown before this, and the discovery of a
new type of carrier that spreads the disease is attracting widespread

attention. On the fourth of this month, Tokyo University will hold a
convention on parasitology at which [General] Kitano will present his
findings. The name for the disease was decided by the army in
February of last year. The disease has already been present, however,
for many years in northern and eastern Manchuria. It was clearly

identified in May 1938 by the Imperial Army. At that time, the disease
took the name of the locality where it occurred and other names. The
army exerted itself to identify this pathogen for the purposes of disease