Show Leprosy Declared No lenace Real in United States Leprosy Denver a plague of the ages is still one of i medicines medicine's greatest mysteries mysteries ies But Dr G W McCoy I United States public health service ervice medical director speaking here before the American Association for the Advancement of Science pro pro- pronounced it not one of our major public health ques- ques questions questions as it is in other parts of the world In most parts t f the United States there Is no need for tor the Isola isolation ot of cases In Dr McCoys McCoy's opinion ex ex- ex except for tor charity reasons or because ot of the esthetic sensibilities ot of the community Dr McCoy believes that nearly all cases of leprosy originate only in Florida Louisiana and Texas But because the period between Weco tion and development ot of the disease is ordinarily from five to ten years and sometimes twenty years the tho tracing ot of the source ot of Infection is difficult Only about a thousand ot of leprosy exist In the United cases States haft haU ot of which ore are known ot of Tulane Dr Ralph Hopkins and dermatologist at the Carville National pre rented evidence of a hereditary ten dency to leprosy and maintained this justified segregation that scientists will soon be beable beable Hope that to transmit leprosy to some able animal In order to study the dis- dis disease was expressed ease it IL Soule of the Malcolm Dr by ot of Michigan who is con con- convinced University that Hansens Hansen's bacillus first fust vinced in 1874 with being the charged artificially been grown cause has ot of the public Dr IL H E the expressed hope service health will find not Dot only an that science cn In that can be cons animal but the ex cx experimentallY transmitted ad act way wa the disease and a e person top topas to f from om P person erson drug drugas oS as as 81 rifle CIOC cu for for malaria Via quinine t |