Leprosy is a chronic infectious condition caused by Mycobacterium leprae(M. leprae). It is endemic in many regions of the world and a public health problem in Brazil. Additionally, it presents a wide ...
Queensland recorded 29 typhoid cases in 2024 and 45 in 2023. Leprosy is extremely rare with two cases recorded in 2024 and two in 2023. All cases were acquired overseas. Health authorities advise that ...
SETOUCHI, Okayama — An experience-based facility recently opened that allows visitors to experience how it felt to be a leprosy patient isolated in Japan’s first national leprosy sanatorium on an ...
The Leprosy Control Program of Antioquia, (post-elimination leprosy state of Colombia), had registered by 1999, 56 lepromatous leprosy patients and their household contacts (HHC). Our interest was to ...