How many people die from leprosy a year?

Answer 1

You don't really die from leprosy but the diseases that make the body weakened and/or the problems with this disease that form other diseases.

With proper and EARLY treatment death can be prevented and now there is even a cure for this disease.

Technology has come along way since people dying from leprosy.

But do remember the disease is contagious, highly contagious.

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Answer 2

Leprosy itself is rarely fatal. People with leprosy die of other diseases because their body is compromised by the disease of leprosy.

Given that, according to the 2004 World Health Record(from the World Health Organization) the Leprosy death statistics for the year 2002 by worldwide region:

• About 1,000 deaths from leprosy in The Americas
• About 3,000 deaths from leprosy in South East Asia
• About 1,000 deaths from leprosy in Eastern Mediterranean
• About 1,000 deaths from leprosy in Western Pacific