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...fleshy pads beneath the feet of the common house mouse and its albino kin in the laboratory are so tiny that it takes a highly imaginative researcher to suggest how they might be useful in the control of human leprosy. Dr. Charles C. Shepard had that kind of imagination. He knew that countless other investigators had failed to persuade Hansen's bacillus, the microbe that causes leprosy, to grow in lab animals-a vital step in virtually all infectious-disease research. At the National Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, Shepard reasoned that perhaps the bacilli needed a cool environment...
Last week, for this achievement, Shepard received the first annual World Leprosy Day Award at a San Francisco gathering of leprologists. In the decade since his bacilli began to grow, and as a direct result of his work, the lot of leprosy patients in many countries has markedly improved and at least two promising new drug treatments have been developed. The prospect is for rapid progress in the next few years...
While it has long been known that leprosy is one of the most difficult diseases to catch, nevertheless some people still catch it.-Shepard's footpad test, involving the injection of disease material into mice to see whether bacilli grow out, has enabled U.S. Public Health Service physicians to show that after a few months of treatment with a sulfone drug (Dapsone), most patients are virtually noninfectious. Then they can safely be released from hospitals to live at home with their families and go to work. And it is now possible to determine in a few months what used...
...point, the tour paused at 797 Huntington Ave., where Hunneman has recently set up a rental and superintendent's office. There are no signs indicating what the office is, and Shepard Brown, vice president of Hunneman, confirmed that, until thisweek, it has not always been open regularly...
Also. Elizabeth R. McKinsey, of 15 Wendell St. and Columbia, Mo.. Linnea K. Holmer of Comistock Hall and Hamden. Conn.. Ellen Messer of Shepard Hall and Cluster, N. J., and Isabel M. Gilman, of 27 Myrtle Ave. and Cambridge...