Though last July's armistice silenced the guns, a mysterious oriental killer has gone on taking the lives of U.S. servicemen in Korea. Epidemic hemorrhagic fever, or Manchurian fever (TIME, Nov. 19, 1951), has killed 17 G.I.s since the fighting ended, and last week 82 were still in the Army's special hospital at Seoul in a long battle to win back their health and strength.
Meanwhile, Army medics in Washington checked reports from overseas research teams, had to admit that they could claim only a partial victory over the disease. They are confident that it is caused by a virus, but they...
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