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Leprosy: Case report suggest disease is becoming endemic in central Florida

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 A case report last week in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID), suggests leprosy, or Hansen’s disease is becoming endemic...

Nicaragua leprosy: ‘We have managed to have a downward trend’

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Last Tuesday in Managua, the first national forum on Leprosy or Hansen’s disease met to share strategies in prevention, diagnosis and timely treatment, to reduce...

Florida reports drop in leprosy cases 3rd year in a row

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After reporting more than two dozens leprosy, or Hansen’s disease cases in 2015, the state has seen a decrease in cases in the subsequent three years. In 2016, 18 cases were reported and in 2017,...

World Leprosy Day 2019: ‘Ending discrimination, stigma and prejudice’

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The ancient bacterial infection, Leprosy, while declared ‘eliminated’ as a public health problem at a global level in 2005 by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2005, it is still not gone and around...

Leprosy: 62% of the Amazonian armadillos carry the bacteria

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The bacteria that causes leprosy, a chronic disease that can lead to disfigurement and nerve damage, is known to be transmitted to humans from nine-banded armadillos. A new study in PLOS Neglected Tropical...

Leprosy vaccine candidate, LepVax, provides effective pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis of M. leprae infection in animals: Study

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A publication in Nature Partner Journals (npj) Vaccines indicates that post-exposure prophylaxis with LepVax, IDRI’s leprosy vaccine candidate, not only appears safe but, unlike BCG (a tuberculosis...

World Leprosy Day 2018: ‘It is a harsh reality that nine out of every 100 new cases diagnosed today are children’

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World Leprosy Day is observed on the last Sunday of January every year and 18 years after being declared “eliminated as a public health problem”1, The World Health Organization (WHO) says national...

Florida reports 16 confirmed leprosy cases in 2017

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After reporting 29 and 18 leprosy cases, in 2015 and 2016, respectively, Florida health officials reported 16 confirmed leprosy, or Hansen’s disease cases in 2017. Eight counties reported cases...

Chile reports suspected leprosy case in Valdivia

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Health authorities in Chile are reporting a suspect leprosy case in a Haitian citizen living in the city of Valdivia in the southern part of the country, according to a Biobiochile report (computer translated). Minister...

Florida leprosy tally reaches 12 in first half of 2017

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Florida health officials report 27 and 18 confirmed leprosy cases in 2015 and 2016, respectively. To date in 2017, the number of confirmed cases have reached 12, according to Florida Department of Health...