American chemist Alice Ball revolutionized leprosy treatment by making chaulmoogra oil injectable, decades before antibiotics ...

The missing values (<1%) of the DIPCRR and PCSDR were imputed by linear interpolation. Figure 2. Annual incidence of leprosy in 129 counties in Yunnan Province from 2004 to 2019. Figure 3 shows the ...

The sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of the leprosy cases were analysed using descriptive statistics for absolute and relative frequencies of the selected variables by identified clusters ...

Vitiligo is generally considered an autoimmune disease, although it's not entirely clear what triggers the immune system to mistakenly attack its own healthy skin pigment cells. Experts think a ...

SEREMBAN: The leprosy situation affecting the Kampung Orang Asli Chergun and Kampung Orang Asli Guntur in Kuala Pilah is under control, the Negri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly sitting was ...

Tilahun Wale not only lost his right foot to leprosy -- a disease that still affects thousands in Ethiopia -- he also lost his family. "My family abandoned me. They blocked my number and refused ...

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Leprosy has existed for more than 3,000 years and is the one of the oldest diseases known to humanity. Though a cure is available, 200,000 individuals are still diagnosed with the disease each year.

Experts hope to uncover the remains of an 11th-century building that was used for 500 years as a hospital called a leprosarium; which people with leprosy would have admitted themselves into.