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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Dr. Thomas Rea, whose research into leprosy helped lead to treatments that made the disease less contagious and allowed patients to lead normal lives, has died. He was 86.
His son, Steven Rea, says Rea died of a form of blood cancer on Feb. 7 at his home in a foothill community north of Los Angeles.
Rea helped identify the role of the immune system in the development of leprosy symptoms such as disfiguring skin lesions that had made sufferers of Hansen’s disease outcasts since Biblical times.
New York Times
Dr. Myron G. Schultz, whose detection of a cluster of pneumonia cases in the early 1980s helped public health officials identify the AIDS epidemic, died on Feb. 19 in Atlanta. He was 81.
The cause was pulmonary hypertension, his wife, Selma, said.
Dr. Schultz, an infectious disease epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, created the Parasitic Diseases Drug Service to provide physicians with medicines to treat rare illnesses. One was pentamidine. Prescribed for patients with African sleeping sickness, it was also made available to treat patients with pneumocystis pneumonia in the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when few alternatives were available.
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