Magnus Vollset

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Magnus Vollset er historiker og førsteamanuensis i medisinhistorie og vitenskapshistorie ved Institutt for global helse og samfunnsmedisin, Pandemisenteret, Universitetet i Bergen. Han leder komiteen for jubileet for oppdagelsen av leprabasillen.

Articles by Magnus Vollset

150-year anniversary of leprosy bacillus

Magnus Vollset,
Preben Aavitsland

28.02.2023: A century and a half after the leprosy bacillus was discovered, far too many people are still contracting the disease. The anniversary is an opportunity to shine a new and necessary spotlight on the disease. Late in the evening of 28 February 1873, Gerhard Armauer Hansen (1841–1912) wrote in his...