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Leprosy News

Health News Posted on May 26, 2012

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Medindia provides you with the latest news and research breakthroughs on Leprosy. Please find 34 such items on this topic.

Breakthrough for T-Cell Activation in Leprosy Keyed by UCLA Scientists
UCLA researchers indentified a new mechanism that effectively triggers T-cells, the group of white blood cells that significantly contribute in fighting infections. Published March 25 onl...

Leprosy Incidence in India Reports 50 Percent and Counting, Globally
The Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday that India reports more than 50 percent of all leprosy cases worldwide. In a written statement, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said: "Out of 228...

Leprosy Pathogen Eludes Vital Vitamin D-Dependent Immune Response
The pathogen responsible for leprosy has an unusual ability to evade the human immune system by restraining the antimicrobial responses crucial to our defenses, reveals a new study. In o...

WHO Calls For Urgent Action To Stem Leprosy Spread in India
Leprosy, the disfiguring disease, which was declared officially eliminated in India six years ago, has made a comeback with reports of its spread in poverty-stricken pockets of the country. ...

Armadillos Cause Leprosy
Leprosy or Hansen�s disease may be passed onto humans by armadillos, found in the southern United States, claim researchers in a new study. Led by Richard Truman of the National Hansen's Dis...

Urban Living Responsible for Helping Humans Develop Immunity to TB, Leprosy
New research has revealed that a genetic variant which cuts the risk of contracting diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy is present among populations with long histories of urban living...

Genetic Variant may Protect Against TB and Leprosy
A new genetic variant which affects susceptibility to tuberculosis and leprosy has been identifed in a study into why some people are more resistant than others to these diseases. The fin...

Nepal Finally Rids Itself Of Leprosy
Nepal's government announced on Wednesday that the country has finally rid itself of leprosy. This makes it one of the last nations to do so. The health ministry said Nepal had cut the n...

The First Ever Proven Case of Leprosy Found in Israel
The DNA of a shrouded man from the first century found in Jerusalem has revealed the earliest proven case of leprosy, Israel's Hebrew university announced on Wednesday. The find is also ...

Leprosy Susceptibility Genes Reported in Major Study
In the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) of leprosy and the largest GWAS on an infectious disease, scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and 26 institutes in China i...

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