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Word: evang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iberia, La., found that the strange, tanklike armadillos common to the Southwest were the only animals that shared man's natural susceptibility to leprosy. Now a team of scientists from Gulf, the University of Hawaii and the Republic of Zaïre's Institut Médical Evangélique report that this chance discovery has paid off. The researchers report that a single nine-banded armadillo that died recently at Gulf yielded some 300 trillion leprosy bacilli-good news for medical researchers who have been searching for ways to cultivate the bacteria for laboratory studies. Doctors will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aid from the Armadillo | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

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