Leprosy (synonyms: Hansen’s disease, Hanseniasis, Hansenosis, Lepra) (from the Latin word lepra, which means “scaly” and the Greek lepo meaning “to scale”) is a chronic infective granulomatous disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium...
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patients had to be ostracized from their families and communities. However, medical advancement has brought cure, so much so that we rarely hear of people suffering from leprosy anymore. Despite that, recent statistics show that nine out of a hundred affected are children, which shows ...
Leprosy affects mainly the skin and peripheral nerves. Nerve involvement causes numbness and weakness in areas controlled by the affected nerves. Tuberculoid leprosy: Skin lesions consist of one or a few hypoesthetic, centrally hypopigmented macules with sharp, raised borders. The rash, as in all...
Population statistics were used to derive CDRs. India contributed 79% to global case detection in 1998. Africa, the Americas and South-East Asia each contributed about 30% when India is excluded. During 1994-2000, case detection did not decrease in these three WHO Regions. The 33 countries ...