Show Leprosy Declared No o Real ea Menace in United States Denver Leprosy Denver Leprosy a plague of the ages is still one of medicines medicine's greatest ies But Dr G. G W. W McCoy United States public health service medical director speaking here before the I i American Association for the Advancement of Science pronounced pronounced pronounced pro- pro it not one of our t major public health questions questions questions ques ques- as it is in other parts of the world In most parts of the United States there is no need for the isolation of cases In Dr McCoys McCoy's opinion e except except ex ex- for charity reasons or because of the esthetic sensibilities of the community Dr McCoy believes that nearly all cases of leprosy originate only in Florida Louisiana and Texas But because the period between Infection infection tion and development of the disease is ordinarily from five to ten years and sometimes twenty years ears the tracing of the source of ot infection is difficult Only about a 3 thousand cases of f leprosy exist in the United States half of which are known Dr Ralph Hopkins of Tulane university uni- uni I and dermatologist at nt the Carville National presented presented presented pre pre- evidence of a hereditary tendency tendency tendency ten ten- dency to leprosy and maintained that this Justified segregation Hope that scientists will soon be beable beable beable able to transmit leprosy to some animal In order to study the disease disease disease dis dis- dis- dis ease experimentally was expressed by Dr Malcolm H lL Soule of the University of Michigan who Is convInced convinced convinced con con- vinced that Hansens Hansen's bacillus first charged In 1874 with being the cause has been grown artificially Dr H. H E. E Hasseltine of the public health service expressed the hope that science will find not only an animal that can be consistently Infected infected In in- experimentally but the exact ex ex- exact act way the disease Is 18 transmitted from Irom person to person and a n specific specific cinc curative drug as effective as quinine for malaria |