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SIR JONATHAN HUTCHINSON'S views on the etiology of leprosy are well known to be opposed to the generally accepted view that it is an infectious disease caused by Hansen's bacillus. They were again brought before the second International Conference at Bergen, August 16–19, 1909. Nevertheless, the conclusions carried by the delegates were opposed to them. The second International Scientific Conference for the suppression of the disease reaffirmed in all aspects the conclusions adopted by the first conference in Berlin, 1897, when the attitude of Dr. Ashburton Thompson towards the accepted etiology was before the delegates. Leprosy was affirmed to be a disease communicable from one person to another. No country, no matter what its geographical situation may be, is secure against infection, and the adoption of proper measures against this possibility was recommended:—“Having regard to the favourable results which have been obtained in Germany, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, by isolating the patients, it is desirable that infected countries should adopt the same measures.”
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[Letters to Editor]. Nature 83, 219 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083219b0
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