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FILARIASIS EXAMINATIONS were conducted the evening of March 3 in Tanahara Village, Nishihara-Son, east-central Okinawa, and blood samples of more than 400 people were collected by U.S. Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands (USCAR) and Government of the Ryukyu Islands (GRI) public health personnel. The blood collections were made in the evening because the tiny micro-filaria which cause the disease lurk in the body's lymphatic glands during the daytime and appear in the bloodstream only at night. Pictured (L-R) are: Capt. Carter L. Marshall, preventive medicine officer, Public Health & Welfare Dept., USCAR; Miss Yukiko Shiroma, clerk, Tanahara Village Hall; two young village residents; and Seikichi Shiroma, laboratory technician, Ryukyu Hygienic Research Laboratory, GRI.
【和訳】沖縄本島中東部の西原村棚原区で3月3日夕方、フィラリア症検査が実施され、米国民政府と琉球政府の保健衛生担当者により400人以上の血液サンプルが採取された。病気の原因となるミクロフィラリアは日中は身体のリンパ腺に潜んでおり、夜になって血流に現れるため、採血は夕方に行われた。写真は（左から）米国民政府公衆衛生福祉局予防医学担当官カーター・L・マーシャル大尉、棚原区公民館事務員シロマ・ユキコ、住民の若手2人、琉球衛生研究所技師シロマ・セイキチ。
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