Dr. W. F. Kirchheimer (left) and Dr. John Trautman (right) examine an armadillo. Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collections, Carville, LA.

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This file appears in: Carville: Silos for Dairy Barn & Armadillo Research

Dr. W. F. Kirchheimer (left) and Dr. John Trautman (right) examine an armadillo. <br />
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Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collections, Carville, LA.

This file appears in: Carville: Silos for Dairy Barn & Armadillo Research

Carville: Silos for Dairy Barn & Armadillo Research

By Elizabeth Schexnyder, Curator, National Hansen's Disease Museum, Carville, LA

The two silos and barns in front of you were built for a dairy herd in the 1920s. By the mid-1950s, an outside vendor was supplying milk to the Leprosarium and the barn fell into disrepair. Hansen's Disease (HD) has never been easy to study…