Controversies surrounding the development of the armadillo as a model for leprosy H. P. Burchfield

Narrative by H. P. Burchfield presented to the Chairman of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations concerning his wife, Dr Eleanor Storrs. This details her alleged exclusion from leprosy research by the US Public Health Service. Burchfield claims that Dr Storrs work on the armadillo as a model animal for biomedical research, and her subsequent discovery of leprosy in wild armadillos is "the most important discovery in leprosy research in the twentieth century." He believes that others knowingly took the credit for this work, deliberately destroying her reputation and damaging her later career.

The narrative refers to supporting documents throughout, and notes that these are being provided to the subcommittee separately. Copies of these were not presented to the Wellcome Library.

1992

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This document was sent to Dr B. I. Williams of the Wellcome Trust, London, in 1992. Storrs supplied the leprosy bacilli used by the Wellcome to make the vaccine Sulphetrone.