DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
BETHESDA, MARYLAND 20014

September 10, 1975

 

Professor Joshua Lederberg
Stanford University Medical Center
Department of Genetics

Stanford, CA 94305

Dear Professor Lederberg:

Thank you for your letter of August 28, 1975, inquiring about some of
our Soviet and Chinese studies. We are delighted to hear that Dr.
Mahler has asked you to extend your term of service on the WHO Advisory
Committee for Medical Research and to examine ways of amplifying the
application of contemporary biomedical science to the special needs

of world rural health. We will be happy to send you, under separate
cover, copies of the documents which you requested.

I am not personally aware of any work on the microbiological validation
of the procedures for handling excreta in China. There is a Dr. Gerald
Winfield who has served in China for many years who is very interested
in the subject and he may have recent information on it. He may be
reached at Department of State, Agency International Development,

Room 210, RPE PHA/POP/MI, Washington, DC 20523.

I am sorry that I am not in a position to respond positively to the
questions mentioned in your last paragraph, namel¥, those referring
to disinfecting drugs mentioned in the Barefoot Doctor's Manual,
the indexing of plants in chapter 8, or the efficacy of arsenic.

If we can be of further assistance to you, please let us know.

Sincerely yours,

(a

Quinn, Ph.D.

ief, International Cooperation
and Geographic Studies Branch
Fogarty International Center