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Cured Leprosy Patients Take Up Self-employment
Cured Leprosy Patients Take Up Self-employment
To sustain themselves they picked up the threads of their lives, scores of people from across the country who have been cured of leprosy have now taken up self-employment. On the occasi... 
Delhi Sees Decline in Leprosy Rates
Delhi Sees Decline in Leprosy Rates
Delhi Health Minister A.K. Walia said that leprosy has been eliminated from the national capital as a public health problem, after a considerable drop in the prevalence rate of the disease. ... 
Leprosy Bacteria Reprograms Cells to Mature into Different Cell Types
Leprosy Bacteria Reprograms Cells to Mature into Different Cell Types
Researchers have discovered that the bacterium that causes leprosy has the ability to reprogram cells to mature into different cell types. Scientists made this discovery when they sought to ... 
Leprosy Tricks Nervous System by Reprogramming Immune Cells Before Progressing to Muscles
Leprosy Tricks Nervous System by Reprogramming Immune Cells Before Progressing to Muscles
A new study has shed light on how leprosy progresses to muscles and other tissues by revealing that it manages to trick the nervous system by reprogramming the key immune cells. Tests on... 
WHO Ambassador Says India Committed to Curb Leprosy
WHO Ambassador Says India Committed to Curb Leprosy
World Health Organisation's (WHO) Goodwill ambassador for leprosy Yohei Sasakawa has said that India is committed to curbing leprosy cases in the coming years and eliminating the stigma asso... 
Incidence of Leprosy is Unacceptably High in India
Incidence of Leprosy is Unacceptably High in India
Seven years after India was declared as leprosy free, the number of leprosy cases has shot up to 1, 26, 800, accounting for more than 55 percent of the total number of cases across the world... 
Breakthrough for T-Cell Activation in Leprosy Keyed by UCLA Scientists
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
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
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
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. ... 
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Leprosy is a chronic bacterial disease affecting the skin and nerves which causes skin lesions and loss sensitivity to heat and pain. The first symptom of leprosy is often a skin nodule or lesion that is not sensitive to touch, and numbness or loss of sensitivity in the arms or legs. Traditionally, people with leprosy have been stigmatized and separated from other people, but today the disease can be cured.To learn more about the disease and meet people who can help, join our online support group for leprosy.