Leprosy Mailing List – April 24, 2026
Ref.: (LML) Animals and human participants
From: Joel Almeida, Mumbai, India
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Dear Pieter and colleagues,
Armadillos offer a useful model of H. Disease. Many aspects including nerve damage, immunobiology, deformity, immunomodulation, anti-microbial potency etc can be studied there.
Human participants in endemic countries are not always rich, influential or highly schooled. They do not have easy ways of telling whether and when experiments with potential serious harm or even fatality are being done on them. Even the experimenters might not be omniscient about the underlying biology.
Would it be a bad idea to first examine the underlying biology of an intervention in vitro or tissue culture or animal models, before experimenting on people?
With all sincerity,
Joel Almeida
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LML - S Deepak, B Naafs, S Noto and P Schreuder
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