Thousands of people die from leprosy we dont exactly know how many, but now there is a cure for leprosy, so we dont have as much trouble with it as we did before.
There have been alot and 1000 have died in 2002
no--its illegal
In 1884, it is estimated that around 1.5 million people were living with leprosy worldwide, but specific mortality figures for that year are not well-documented. The disease was prevalent, and while many suffered from its effects, precise statistics regarding deaths directly attributed to leprosy in that specific year are not readily available. Historical records often lack detailed data on mortality rates from leprosy during the 19th century.
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in medieval towns in europe when someone would get leprosy they would be sent to an isalnd where people with leprosy live.
People who are in immediate contact with the leprosy patient should be tested for leprosy.
Leprosy was cured
people may have received it by contact with other humans and/ or run through family
Some people are genetically resistant to leprosy, probably and no matter what, they do not get leprosy. Other with tuberculous type of leprosy have high resistance to leprosy. Those with lepromatous type of leprosy have least resistance to leprosy germs. The intermediate leprosy type have intermediate resistance to leprosy germs. Body reacts to leprosy by trying to kill the leprosy causing germs. There is an inflammatory response.
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.Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/How_can_you_die_from_leprosy#ixzz1DxzEdiX7
leprosy
No, leprosy is not a tasty meal, actually, it is a terrible skin disease caused by a bacteria. This causes the formation of lumps and rashes on the skin. Many Bible stories tell of healing of leprosy, and most of these stories include Jesus, God or a prophet washing the leprosy-diseased person in the Dead Sea. In older times when there was no cure people with leprosy were shunned from the village or society in which they were living and forced to form Leper colonies where the infected lived (and died). Now days there are treatments and cures for the disease. For a fuller description of the condition and social issues surrounding it, see the related link.
Saint Father Damien of Molokai was an apostle to the lepers in Hawaii and eventually died of the illness himself.