Advanced leprosy can result in neurological damage, causing patients to lose their sensitivity. Some patients have lost fingers or toes because of extensive injury from the disease. “In many ...

The bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, initially developed to provide protection against TB, also protects against leprosy; and the magnitude of this effect varies. Previous meta-analyses ...

A new chapter in dermatological care was inaugurated at Father Muller Medical College Hospital with the launch of its ...

ABU ZAABAL — “This place is our whole life, and lately, we keep hearing talk that they will evict us ” A variation on this phrase is repeated by many leprosy patients who receive treatment ...

Leprosy cases are also being investigated without ... slowly and is typically identified only after it has significantly advanced and begun to affect the nerves,” he explained, noting that ...

“It appears, to me, to be a landmark paper which really provides a bounty of insight into this newly recognized and little-understood organism,” said Richard Truman, chief of the laboratory research ...

Experts hope to uncover a 500-year-old hospital called a leprosarium; which people with leprosy would have admitted themselves into. Ms Sam Tipper, a senior lecturer from Anglia Ruskin university ...

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 ...