How To Use Leprosy In A Sentence
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Furthermore, there were many differences of opinion regarding the question of just how contagious leprosy was and how it was transmitted.
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He has to make a quick visit to Dr. Hervey, a leprosy specialist who has developed a certain infallible test ...
“Some day, all the fools will be dead....”
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Leprosy and lymphatic filariasis, or elephantiasis, leave victims deformed, hamper productivity and normal social interaction, Chan said.
1 Billion Suffer From Hidden Tropical Diseases, Says WHO
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Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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While patients with tuberculoid leprosy have only a few organisms, those with lepromatous leprosy have abundant bacteria.
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We try to help with the problems leprosy can cause - often drugs and medical care are the least of it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our spirits, however, were much cheered by hearing that the sultan had received a letter from a seyyid at Meshed (probably the nice one who had been in India and had leprosy in his legs), telling him how very badly the sultan of Hagarein had behaved about us.
Southern Arabia
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The armadillo is the only animal that we know of in history when leprosy was prevalent that carried leprosy.
CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2009
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Phnom Penh, the capital, recently got a new fleet of metered taxis, and it soon will have its first skyscrapers, including a 42-story luxury condominium tower rising up next to an office for a national antileprosy campaign.
Cambodia's Premier in Strong Position Ahead of Vote
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I was interested in leprosy, and upon that, as upon every other island subject, Kersdale had encyclopedic knowledge.
Good-bye, Jack
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MDT is an effective treatment and could cure all the leprosy sufferers worldwide.
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When melancholy gets out at the superficies of the skin, or settles breaking out in scabs, leprosy, morphew, or is purged by stools, or by the urine, or that the spleen is enlarged, and those varices appear, the disease is dissolved.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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DOBBS: It's remarkable that this -- whatever confusion, or confoundment over 7,000 cases, they actually keep a registry of cases of leprosy.
CNN Transcript May 7, 2007
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Conclusion This study emphasizes the importance of providing training on leprosy to the doctors in dermatologic clinics while continuously encouraging their involvement in leprosy control.
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While a controversy ensued, Hansen rightfully received acknowledgment as the discoverer of the leprosy bacillus.
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A typical treatment course for Hansen's disease involves multiple drug therapy with dapsone and rifampin for three to five years in patients with tuberculoid leprosy, and for life in patients with lepromatous leprosy.
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The differential diagnosis in this case includes secondary syphilis, lepromatous leprosy, cutaneous tuberculosis, and discoid lupus erythematosus.
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Note: Although the cure of leprosy is quicker using dapsone together with other medicines, sometimes only dapsone is available.
Chapter 31
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House flies are suspected of transmitting at least 65 human diseases such as typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, tuberculosis, anthrax, leprosy, food poisoning, pinworms, hookworms, and some tapeworms.
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One complemented the other, and in September 1957, the first mobile leprosy clinic was launched by Archbishop Perier.
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Contrary to age-old belief, leprosy is surprisingly hard to catch.
Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog
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It is, however, probable that dietetical considerations may have influenced Moses in his prohibition of swine's flesh: it is generally believed that its use in hot countries is liable to induce cutaneous disorders; hence in a people liable to leprosy the necessity for the observance of a strict rule.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Later, they went regularly to Dhapa, the large leprosy colony in Calcutta, where they tended the sick.
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The treatment makes the illness completely noncontagious, although it turns out that leprosy is not highly infectious.
Archive 2006-09-01
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It had warped me into a suffocating, totalizing essence, pinned me with the girders of weakness, monstrosity, and leprosy that supported their dichotomous construction of Homosexual.
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Then leprosy disappeared, and after an interval (filled in the French version [pp. 16-18] by the victims of venereal disease), the mad were placed in some of the old leprosaria.
An Exchange with Michel Foucault
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As a result, he was deprived of his position as resident physician at the leprosy hospital in 1880.
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tubercular leprosy
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For the same reasons, leprosy is now called Hansen's disease, and mongolism has become Down syndrome; people who were once called crazy, mad, lunatic, demented, etc., are now categorized as sick.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
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During the past few months the city papers have referred to St. Vincent as the leprosy town, Hallock was referred to as the pauper district; we have been advertised as the refuge of tramps and quarantined on account of glanders*; but last of all and worst of all Bro, W-- --- has commenced pelting us with poetry, and SUCH poetry!
"...Leprosy Town..."
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As a medicinal herb, lilies were said to treat burns, snakebite and even leprosy.
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On the other hand, smallpox has been eradicated, sleeping sickness has become rare, and polio and leprosy are under control.
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Leprosy awareness has however increased and it can be cured at the initial stage, free of cost.
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One of the earliest recorded epidemic diseases was leprosy.
An Introduction to Community Health
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tuberculoid leprosy
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MDT is an effective treatment and could cure all the leprosy sufferers worldwide.
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A well-marked case of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis, a scalelike affection of the skin, unsightly, obstinate, but possibly curable, and certainly noninfective.
The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
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There were a lot of badly disfigured individuals who'd suffered the nerve damage leprosy causes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lastly, they are valuable for use in medical research on multiple births, organ transplants, birth defects and diseases such as leprosy, typhus and trichinosis.
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But in East Timor, and specifically Oe-cusse Enclave, leprosy is not feared as it is in richer, more educated places.
Tiny East Timor Declares War On Leprosy
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Type 2 reactions affect about 20% of patients with lepromatous leprosy.
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The spreading leprosy taints ev'ry part, Infects each limb, and sickens at the heart.
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If it be within the [1075] body, and not putrified, it causeth black jaundice; if putrified, a quartan ague; if it break out to the skin, leprosy; if to parts, several maladies, as scurvy, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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I cannot imagine, for exam 4 ple, that there are any leprosy - snobs.
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Although it is less effective in killing leprosy bacteria than rifampin, it has the advantage that it also helps to control lepra reaction to some extent, particularly in persons with lepromatous leprosy
Chapter 31
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By 1914, the site was designated a national leprosarium and President Woodrow Wilson assigned $250,000 for the “care and treatment of people affected with leprosy.”
The Sanctuary of Outcasts (copy)
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In the middle ages sufferers of leprosy in some parts of the world were made to wear bells and use separate currency due to the assumed contagiousness of the disease, and as recently as 1985 it was still considered a significant health issue in 122 countries.
Egypt's last leper colony broaches time of integration
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Leprosy was special in that it was perceived as an affront to the nation.
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Even the unshockable viewers of BBC's Room 101 this summer were offended by Milligan's wish that he suffer ‘an early death’ or leprosy.
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Beyond an employment project for cured leprosy patients, the road became a causeway across flooded land.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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I met dozens of leprosy patients during my stay.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cholera, plague, smallpox, malaria, kalaazar, leprosy and venereal diseases are the others considered.
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The differential diagnoses in this case are tuberculoid leprosy and rhinophyma.
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The eating of pork has produced leprosy and cancerous tumors.
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Borderline leprosy shows an intermediate appearance between the tuberculoid and lepromatous types.
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Leprosy may in some instances resemble a chronic dermatosis such as eczema or pityriasis versicolor.
Chapter 9
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Leprosy is used in the Scriptures to symbolize sin, and was sometimes inflicted by the Lord as a punishment for sin, as, for instance, in the case of Miriam, Moses' sister, who was smitten with leprosy because of her improper attitude and disrespectful language to and about her brother Moses.
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One of the standard treatments for leprosy has been to inject ethyl-esters of chaulmoogra oil into a muscle with a large bore syringe.
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Leprosy is a complex mycobacterial disease whose manifestations and complications are determined by the immune response.
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They had leprosy, a disease for which there was no cure.
Christianity Today
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They meet people with leprosy who are ostracized even by the doctors who know they are not contagious.
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By 1917 all the pieces needed for Congress to enact legislation regarding leprosy were set in place.
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In addition to leprosy, foreigners seeking work permits are now required to be tested for tuberculosis and the sexually transmitted diseases syphilis, chlamydia and chancres.
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It turns out that the bacterium that causes leprosy directly damages a protective sheathing, made of the protein myelin, around many nerve cells.
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The reverend father Dom Calmet, a great antiquarian, that is, a great compiler of what was said in former times and what is repeated at the present day, has confounded lues with leprosy.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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According to health experts, leprosy is relatively easy to treat with a combination of antibacterial drugs known as multidrug therapy (MDT): clofazimine, rifampicin and dapsone.
IRIN
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In 1879, Albert Neisser, one of Robert Koch's pupils, visited Bergen to study leprosy.
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There were a lot of badly disfigured individuals who'd suffered the nerve damage leprosy causes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The researchers then turned their attention to case-control studies - comparisons of patients ( 'cases') against healthy volunteers ( 'controls') - to see whether genetic variants in the LTA4H region affected susceptibility to mycobacterial infection in humans, examining patients in Vietnam with a particularly dangerous form of TB known as meningeal TB, and patients in Nepal with leprosy.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
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It is not precisely determined when leprosy first made its appearance in Norway, but it likely entered Norway from the British Isles during the time of marauding Vikings.
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Caught early enough, leprosy can be cured today with the antibiotics dapsone, rifampicin, and clofazimine.
Matt Bivens: Cure Millions of Leprosy -- or Just Give Hank Paulson a Tax Break?
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On receipt of the above recommendations, a special committee of the National Leprosy Fund was appointed to review the report.
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Leprosy is one of the few tropical diseases which could be eradicated early in the 21st century.
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And that is the worst disease in the world today, not tuberculosis or leprosy.
Daily Readings with Mother Theresa
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The Japanese beetle, the citrous scale, the chestnut blight, and the elm borer spread to every corner of the world, and from one forgotten pesthole in Borneo, leprosy, long imagined extinct, reappeared.
The Stars My Destination
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They prefer their disease to be called Hansen's disease not leprosy, and the disease can be easily cured.
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Borderline leprosy shows an intermediate appearance between the tuberculoid and lepromatous types.
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The oil is hot and dry, anthelmintic, aphrodisiac, tonic; makes hair black; good for leucoderma, coryza, epilepsy and other nervous diseases; lessens inflammation; useful in paralysis and superficial pain; oil used externally in gout, leprosy and leucoderma; bark: brownish gum exudate found useful in nervous disorders.
Find Me A Cure
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In those days, people used to think I could cure them of laryngitis, leprosy or haemophilia just by touching them with my horn.
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Both Danielssen and Boeck believed that leprosy was a hereditary disease.
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The daycare wanted to make sure his skin wasn't contagious - much like impetigo or leprosy.
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Programmes to control leprosy, hepatitis and dengue fever are vividly shown.
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Residents lived on meagre rations and in squalor, suffering epidemics of leprosy and other contagious diseases.
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Therapeutically it is used externally in leprosy, old ulcers and to destroy corns, but on account of its rubefacient and vesicant qualities it is necessary to use it cautiously.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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Programmes to control leprosy, hepatitis and dengue fever are vividly shown.
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Unlike venereal disease, leprosy came to Western attention relatively late.
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It turns out that the bacterium that causes leprosy directly damages a protective sheathing, made of the protein myelin, around many nerve cells.
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Mohammed, who liked sneezing because accompanied by lightness of body and openness of pores, said of it, “If a man sneeze or eructate and say ‘Alhamdolillah’ he averts seventy diseases of which the least is leprosy”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Chaulmoogra was later identified as a source of chaulmoogra oil, an age-old leprosy treatment.
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Some neighbours believed she had leprosy, a disease that brings immediate isolation in Hindu society.
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In 1981 he returned to Khon Kaen and was entrusted with the apostolate for leprosy patients and their families.
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leprosy is an indolent infectious disease
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While patients with tuberculoid leprosy have only a few organisms, those with lepromatous leprosy have abundant bacteria.
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It is known that leprosy patients are different in terms of bacteriological index, immunological status, histology and clinical features.
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Borderline leprosy shows an intermediate appearance between the tuberculoid and lepromatous types.
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Other therapeutic uses include management of convulsions, leprosy, and rheumatic pain.
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Mohammed, who liked sneezing because accompanied by lightness of body and openness of pores, said of it, "If a man sneeze or eructate and say 'Alhamdolillah' he averts seventy diseases of which the least is leprosy" (Juzám); also "If one of you sneeze, let him exclaim, 'Alhamdolillah,' and let those around salute him in return with, 'Allah have mercy upon thee!' and lastly let him say, 'Allah direct you and strengthen your condition."'
Arabian nights. English
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WHO also played a major coordinating role in controlling yaws in the late 1940s and onchocerciasis, leprosy, and polio in the past three decades.
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AIDS * leprosy * malaria * Adult-onset vanishing white matter leukoencephalopathy * Late-onset metachromatic leukodystrophy * Cerebral
WN.com - Articles related to Africa making dramatic strides in malaria fight
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Leprosy is terrible, there is no getting away from that; but from what little I know of the disease and its degree of contagiousness, I would by far prefer to spend the rest of my days in Molokai than in any tuberculosis sanatorium.
Chapter 7
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The defaulters imprecate on themselves, quicquid haben: telorum armamentaria coeli: the part of Judas, the leprosy of Gieza, the tremor of Cain,
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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I cannot imagine, for exameple, that there are any leprosy - snobs.
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A similar phenomenon is seen with other infections, such as leprosy, leishmaniasis, and fungal diseases including cryptococcosis and sporotrichosis.
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In the city there were tens of thousands dying of starvation, tuberculosis, leprosy and other diseases.
Times, Sunday Times
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Infections such as typhoid, malaria and even leprosy were among the illnesses people picked up while on holiday.
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In case of a severe 'lepra reaction' (pain along the nerves, numbness or weakness, eye irritation, or painful testicles), it is usually best to keep taking the leprosy treatment, but to also take an anti-inflammatory medicine (cortico-steroid).
Chapter 31
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In this way, they spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on.
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A century-old drug that failed in its original intent to treat tuberculosis but has worked well as an antileprosy medicine now holds new promise as a potential therapy for multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases.
Health News from Medical News Today
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Leprosy is one of the few tropical diseases which could be eradicated early in the 21st century.
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Such links contributed to the development among patients of a broader perspective about themselves and about leprosy.
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Novartis renewed its commitment to donate an unlimited supply of multidrug therapy and loose clofazimine for leprosy and its complications.
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How can we as a faith community keep credibility among the youth of today if we cling to every jot and tittle of an outmoded social code while thousands die of leprosy and hunger?
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GENEVA — The World Health Organization estimated Thursday that 1 billion of the world's poorest people suffer from neglected tropical diseases such as dengue, rabies and leprosy that remain concentrated in remote rural areas and urban slums despite being mostly eradicated from large areas of the world.
1 Billion Suffer From Hidden Tropical Diseases, Says WHO
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The most severe form of leprosy produces large disfiguring nodules, or lumps.
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Leprosy is associated with symmetric skin lesions, nodules, plaques, and a thickened dermis.
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The Southern recension of the epic states that in an earlier birth as Nalayani (also named Indrasena) she was married to Maudgalya, an irascible sage afflicted with leprosy.
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'Beshrew the old hag that told me that he was affected with leprosy! Surely, that is a lie against him, for this is not the voice of one who hath such a disease.
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However, despite drug treatment, the number of new cases of leprosy detected each year has stayed the same or risen.
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A typical treatment course for Hansen's disease involves multiple drug therapy with dapsone and rifampin for three to five years in patients with tuberculoid leprosy, and for life in patients with lepromatous leprosy.
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Leprosy was given the eponym Hansen's disease after Gerhard Henrick Armauer Hansen.
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Leprosy awakes not sometimes before forty, the gout and stone often later; but consumptive and tabid [III. w] roots sprout more early, and at the fairest make seventeen years of our life doubtful before that age.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
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Diseases like leprosy, Guinea worm and river blindness are endemic.
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Later, it's suggested by Dr Bishop that it may be a "leprotic contagion." (i.e. leprosy based).
Polite Dissent
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The new commitments aim to eradicate or reduce leprosy, lymphatic filariasis (also known as elephantiasis), blinding trachoma, sleeping sickness, Guinea worm, schistosomiasis (also called bilharzia), river blindness, soil-transmitted helminthes, Chagas disease and visceral leishmaniasis.
Agencies, Drug Makers, Gates Target 10 Diseases
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She was diagnosed with leprosy in 1953 after she lost all sensation in patches of her skin.
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MDT is an effective treatment and could cure all the leprosy sufferers worldwide.
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A well-marked case of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis, a scale - like affection of the skin, unsightly, obstinate, but possibly curable, and certainly noninfective.
The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
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Furthermore, there were many differences of opinion regarding the question of just how contagious leprosy was and how it was transmitted.
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By 1917 all the pieces needed for Congress to enact legislation regarding leprosy were set in place.
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The curses of the camel-drivers beating the animals; the cries of the hawkers who sold amulets against leprosy and the evil eye; the psalmody of the monks reciting verses of the Bible; the shrieking of the women who were prophesying; the shouting of the beggars singing old songs of the harem; the bleating of sheep; the braying of asses; the sailors calling tardy passengers; all these confused noises caused a deafening uproar, over which dominated the strident voices of the little naked negro boys, running about everywhere selling fresh dates.
Thais
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They still have leprosy in Yurp, right?
Times, Sunday Times
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In those days, people used to think I could cure them of laryngitis, leprosy or haemophilia just by touching them with my horn.
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Christian religious groups maintained hundreds of charitable hospitals for victims of leprosy.
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I cannot imagine, for example, that there are any leprosy snobs.
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Therefore he reasoned that "epiphenomenon" had been built up to accommodate some modern theory of thought, some new leprosy of the mind never dreamed of by the noble lexicographer.
The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance
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On receipt of the above recommendations, a special committee of the National Leprosy Fund was appointed to review the report.
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Founded in 1894 as a state leprosarium in nearby Carville, La., the center is considered the premier research and treatment facility in the world for leprosy," The Post reports.
Old myths about leprosy still around
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Age , leprosy type and the disease duration of the patients are significantly related to lagophthalmos.
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The Chinese man suffering from leprosy is quarantined in a tent by the river on the edge of town.
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In 2004, nine people contracted typhoid and paratyphoid fever, seven picked up malaria, two people got leprosy and there was one case of cholera.
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· In the 1960s, M. leprae started to develop resistance to dapsone, the worlds only known anti-leprosy drug.
Chapter 2
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Gould dwells mainly on occidental missionaries, sisters from the church, and other motivated people of Christian faith who served the cause of leprosy patients.
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The following extract from _Current History_, Vol. XV, pages 771-772, sets forth the participation of Alice Ball, a scholarly Negro chemist, in the treatment of leprosy through the use of chaulmoogra oil extracted by a difficult scientific process.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922
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Leprosy awakes not sometimes before forty, the gout and stone often later; but consumptive and tabid+ roots sprout more early, and at the fairest make seventeen years of our life doubtful before that age.
Letter to a Friend
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Two diseases intrigued her: tuberculosis and leprosy, both of which are caused by mycobacteria.
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In 2004, nine people contracted typhoid and paratyphoid fever, seven picked up malaria, two people got leprosy and there was one case of cholera.
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She stayed six weeks, observing patients at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital for leprosy patients at Carville, La., and taking a crash course in cleft-palate repair at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
Vietti, Eleanor A.
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Disagreement among experts about medical treatment in leprosy created confusion among patients and eroded their confidence in physicians.
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Nor were all convinced that leprosy warranted being singled out for special attention.
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Realising this, the SIHRLC re-balanced its services recently in such a way that the base hospital in Karigiri had all outpatient services such as dermatology, ophthalmology, dentistry, psychiatry, general medicine, orthopaedics, ENT, paediatrics and obstetrics and gynaecology, in addition to leprosy.
The Hindu - Front Page
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This modern treatment will cure leprosy in six to twelve months.
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Chemotherapy for leprosy generally includes dapsone, rifampicin and clofazimine, which themselves may affect genetic damage in treated leprosy patients.
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The non infectious, paucibacillary form of leprosy is treated with dapsone and rifampicin, and the less common, infectious multibacillary form with a combination of all three drugs.
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This may happen due to injuries, infections, or even chronic problems like rheumatoid arthritis and leprosy.
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In this way, they spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on.
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Should we abandon medical research currently seeking cures for cancer, aids, etc. and let polio, malaria, leprosy, typhoid, etc. resurge to thin the human herd?
Jesus Saves, Buddha Recycles: A Spiritual Perspective on Consumerism
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The sole mention of the word leprosy brought to mind images of what I had seen in the movies and read in the Bible.
Make Your Life Prime Time
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Cholera, plague, smallpox, malaria, kalaazar, leprosy and venereal diseases are the others considered.
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The editorial staff of the International Journal of Leprosy took the lead.
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Cures using herbs for diseases such as fever, jaundice, dropsy and leprosy are enumerated.
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This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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To the housewife, want is an insidious myriapod creature that crawls in the dark, mates with its own offspring, breeds all the year round, persists like leprosy.
The Promised Land
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Despite evidence in the 40s that leprosy was rarely contagious and easily treated, lepers were banished to remote islands until 1996.
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Take the leprosy out of your flesh, before you speak of purifying stone walls — abate your insolent license, which leads but to idle vanity and sinful excess; and know, that what you now practise, is one of the profane and unseemly sports introduced by the priests of Rome themselves, to mislead and to brutify the souls which fell into their net.”
The Abbot
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Historically, anxiety about the loss of the nose is tied to stigmatizing diseases - leprosy and syphilis.
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His group also sequenced the genomes of many important pathogens including the tuberculosis and leprosy bacilli.
Times, Sunday Times
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Residents lived on meagre rations and in squalor, suffering epidemics of leprosy and other contagious diseases.
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Beyond an employment project for cured leprosy patients, the road became a causeway across flooded land.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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While patients with tuberculoid leprosy have only a few organisms, those with lepromatous leprosy have abundant bacteria.
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His company no longer makes thalidomide but the drug is still in use in the fight against leprosy.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, he described modern psoriasis under the term lepra vulgaris, which perpetuated confusion of psoriasis and leprosy.
ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
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The defaulters imprecate on themselves, quicquid haben: telorum armamentaria coeli: the part of Judas, the leprosy of
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
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The Post reports that the wealth of information on the Internet has helped erode some of the stigma of the disease, which is easily treatable where the anti-leprosy drugs dapsone and rifampin are available.
Old myths about leprosy still around
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It now looks as if leprosy originated in East Africa, and Europeans and North Africans took it to West Africa.
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Jan 30, 2009 | not rated yet | no comments yet A century-old drug that failed in its original intent to treat tuberculosis but has worked well as an antileprosy medicine now holds new promise as a potential therapy for multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
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The most severe form of leprosy produces large disfiguring nodules, or lumps.
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One of the most common was mercury, which had been used by the Arabs for centuries to treat leprosy and yaws.
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In this way, they spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on.
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They have never seen leprosy or festering abscesses or sores that do not heal.
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Sufferers of leprosy and tuberculosis as well as carriers of the germs responsible for those diseases are particularly at risk of this false positive reaction.
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Diversification was taken up by the SIHRLC with the establishment of the Paul Brand Institute of Integrated Health (PBIIH) in Katpadi in connection with the golden jubilee celebrations of the hospital about five years ago, for providing health services such as dermatology, orthopaedics, ENT, ophthalmology, dentistry and treatment of lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, along with treatment of leprosy.
The Hindu - Front Page
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His body was deformed by leprosy
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The vaccine - which consists of whole, dead leprosy bacilli - should induce immunity in the subjects.
