Chinese museum reveals Japanese atrocity of transfusing animal blood into humans during WWII

A Chinese museum has released details of wartime human experiments carried out by the Japanese military, including tests in which animal blood was transfused into prisoners during the late 1930s.

According to a report by Japanese military surgeon Tsutomu Saito, 23 prisoners of war were subjected to experiments involving blood from animals such as horses, dogs, rabbits, sheep and chickens. Researchers said the records documented severe reactions, including fever, chills, bloody urine and other life-threatening symptoms.

The documents are preserved at the Unit 731 Exhibition Hall, which focuses on crimes committed by the Japanese military’s Unit 731 during World War II. Museum researchers said the publication of these studies in military medical journals suggests that such human experimentation was known within parts of Japan’s wartime medical community.

The revelations have renewed attention on Unit 731, the secret biological warfare program based in Harbin, where large-scale human experimentation and germ warfare research were conducted during Japan’s occupation of parts of China.

Credit – CGTN