Missing Microbes
Martin J. Blaser MD., 2014, Bvtn 615.7922
- p115: ... contacted by Dr. Abraham Nomura, principal investigator of the Japan-Hawaii Cancer Study based in Honolulu. He and his colleagues had done pioneering work on the disease risks of Japanese-Americans living in Hawaii ...
Between 1965 and 1968, more than 7,400 Japanese-American men born between 1900 and 1919 enrolled in the Honolulu Heart Study. These men, veterans of the 442nd Regiment who fought in the U.S. Army with great distinction during World War II, were heros of mine ever since I had learned about them from reading James Michener's book Hawaii as a boy. When Japanese-Americans were being rounded up and incarcerated on the West Coast of the United States, these men risked (and some lost) their lives and limbs to defend their country. The late Senator Daniel Inouye was one of them.
- By 1989, blood samples from nearly 6,000 of these veterans had been obtained and frozen. ...