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Leprosy causes nerve damage that can result in nerve function impairment and disability. Corticosteroids are commonly used for treating nerve damage, although their long-term effect is uncertain. This ...
Leprosy resurfaces in India due to climate change, poverty, and stigma, demanding urgent interventions and visibility.
In addition, a significant fraction of patients undergo immune mediated reactions even after multidrug therapy (MDT). Erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL) is an immune complex mediated reactional condition ...
Two cases of relapse in borderline leprosy were reported. Despite the late-reversal, reaction-like feature, the suspicion of relapse in both was based on persistent and slow-developing skin lesions ...
The genomes also all budded from the same branch of the leprosy family tree, sharing enough genetic similarities that they strongly indicated that medieval humans and squirrels were swapping the ...
Paucibacillary leprosy causes skin patches where peripheral nerve damage occurs; multibacillary borderline leprosy, the most common form of this condition, causes large patches of skin lesions with ...
People often think of leprosy as a bygone disease, relevant primarily in biblical times. But in fact, it is still present in more than 120 countries, and the US is seeing an uptick in cases.
Micrograph of lepromatous leprosy. Wikimedia Commons I n recent weeks, you may have seen alarming headlines about how leprosy might become “endemic” in Florida.
A new CDC case report shows that, of the 159 leprosy cases reported in the U.S. in 2020, some one-fifth of them came from central Florida.
Cases of leprosy have been increasing in central Florida, so much so that the disease, known for causing nervous system issues and skin lesions, may now be endemic in the region.
Florida is seeing a rise in leprosy cases that could mean the disease is now endemic in the Sunshine State, according to a letter published by the Centers for Disease and Prevention.