European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 18 the stars and stripes january 1981 new experimental leprosy vaccine May Stop disease which has maimed millions by Lawrence Geneva not if tests of the first doses of an experimental leprosy vaccine Are they May Mark the beginning of the end of a disease that has maimed millions and made them rite victims of deep seated prejudice and aversion since ancient the attempt to prevent leprosy with a vac Cine is an extremely arduous scientific Chal Lenge and one of the most fascinating stories in the history of medical leprosy is a bacterial infection that is still a serious Public health problem in tropical where it affects 11 million As much As 2 percent of the of about a third suffer physical deform in medical school in my Only knowledge about leprosy was from but when i worked in Africa As an epidemic i saw How truly cruel leprosy it can it can disfigure the skin of the face and resulting in the so called Leo nine it can destroy nerves so that Vic Tims lose digits and portions of hands and feet because they do not sense such dangers As hot stoves and therefore fail to withdraw from them in it takes an extraordinarily Long from three to 10 to develop leprosy sym the bacteria Are presumably spread by nasal but no one is certain of among the characteristics of leprosy that mystify doctors Why do husbands and wives Seldom infect each other is it that Only some people Are susceptible to leprosy and others not no one leprosy can be treated with drugs such As a Type of sulfa which can arrest the disease but must be Given for several years to remain but leprosy cannot now be one of the chief frustrations of leprosy workers is that the widespread use of Dapson Over the last 30 years has done Little to reduce the global incidence of the most doctors dream about discovering a cure or prevention of a but in the Case of such dreams were unrealistic until the causative mycobacterium could be grown for experimental Pur leprosy unlike Many other Orga cannot be grown on artificial Media in the in researchers in Louisiana found that leprosy bacteria could infect nine banded armadillos in the Laboratory with a variety that mimicked Lepro Matous the severest form in now armadillos provide the Large numbers of Bac Teria needed to develop an experimental vac developing a vaccine is a Long one made even More difficult in the Case of leprosy by the extraordinarily Long incubation Peri in somewhat simplified the process can be divided into three stages vaccine testing an experimental vaccine and licensing a vaccine for Standard the first stage has been nearly completed through the efforts of the world health organizations network of leprosy they have purified leprosy freeing them of the bits of armadillo tissue if present As might harm he and those purified leprosy preparations have immunized some mice and Arma Dillos against the the second stage selecting the preparation to be tried As an experimental leprosy vaccine is expected to begin next according to Hubert who Yeow ouch Una targets Are to w Mike Heads the health organizations leprosy pro Gram Here and who taught me about leprosy when we worked in upper when the world health organization be Gan its leprosy vaccine program in the pest scientific guess was that the vaccine must include killed leprosy bacteria As Well As a chemical called an adjuvant to boost its immunizing but a pleasant Surprise came from evidence showing that the preparations with killed leprosy bacteria alone had much stronger immunizing properties than originally so the research has been confined to if the additional animal tests needed to evaluate the second stage show that the vaccine is free of toxic and does not cause then the first doses will be injected into the arms of a Small group of human volunteers by those Yetton chosen volunteers Are expected to include people in both developed and developing so that the Inci Dence of reactions can be compared among individuals who have been exposed to differ ent bacteria in different once the vaccines safety has been determined in the crucial and most difficult part of the vaccine research program will perhaps in that phase is meant to determine the vaccines or ability to protect against leprosy in the world health organization is working on the scientific design of that vaccine trial and has yet to decide where it will be carried the areas will be among other specifically for their incidence of Lep Rosy and stability of the presumably another criterion will be a Small Chance of political changes that could interrupt or Public health changes that would alter the incidence of leprosy and other diseases during the trial such factors could invalidate results of the vaccine most vaccines can be tested on relatively Small numbers of the leprosy vaccine might have to be tested among volunteers Over 10 years for optimum Independence Celebration Burma up 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plex having a baby Doest make an Ordinary woman into an if she is a Loving per that the Type of Mother she will if she is selfish and motherhood wont make her a some of us were dumped on when we were and we Arent afraid to say so out up dear Utica could it be that your Mother was dumped on by her Mother you dont say whether you have if you i Hope you unload some of that rage and break the Good dear Ann Landers i am an swering the Butcher from who gives tips and would be Nice if somebody tipped what does he when the Cost of beef is anywhere from to a i was a Butcher in we received tips of a Nickel or a dime from certain customers because we trimmed off the in those a five cent tip paid for a big Beer and free lunch at the Corner a ten cent tip bought a whiskey or three Phil lies i quit butchering in 1918 to go into Auto i am 85 years dear thanks for being our inhouse youve reminded us again that what this country needs is a Good five cent dear Ann Landers you made it Clear that you dont 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