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Leprosy
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| Term Paper Title | Leprosy |
| # of Words | 467 |
| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) | 1.87 |
Leprosy
Leprosy
Mike Wallis
Leprosy or Hansen’s disease, is a chronic, infectious disease that
mainly affects the skin, mucous membranes, and nerves. A rod shaped bacillus
named Mycobacterium leprea, causes the virus. Mycobacterium leprea is very
similar to the bacillus that causes tuberculosis. The reason Leprosy is also
known as Hansen’s disease, is because it was first identified in 1874 by a
Norwegian physician named Gerhard Henrik Armeur Hansen.
Leprosy appears in both the Old and New Testaments. In the bible Leprosy
was not the disease that is recognized now, but as various physical conditions
that were nothing like the disease. A punishment from God was what these
conditions were considered to be. The victim was said to be in a state of
defilement. This Hebrew term was translated as lepros, which the word leprosy
came from.
The disease’s probable origin was the Indus Valley that is located in
India. Leprosy spread from there to the Mediterranean region and North Africa,
then all of Europe was affected. This disease is much less common now, as the
world case count has dropped below 1 million. During 1995 about 530 000 new
cases of leprosy were discovered. It is obvious that third world countries have
way more cases as India, Indonesia, and Myanmar account for almost 70% of the
cases reported in the world. 5500 know cases of Leprosy still exist in the US,
and about 200 cases a reported annually.
Tests to produce leprosy in experimental animals, have not been
successful as of ye
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