Leprosy

It depends on how long it is left untreated. The treatment can last 5 minutes up to a year. Victims must take most (if not all) of the medical drugs listed below:
Rifampicin
Clofazimine
Dapsone
Ofloxacin
Minocycline
See the related link for dose information.

Leprosy affects the skin and the nerves.

In the skin, the lesion can be single or multiple. The skin lesions are at first flat and red Then they enlarge, and have irregular shapes. They are paler than your surrounding skin in the centre but are darker around their edges. They can be raised or contain nodules. The characteristic feature is loss of sensation in that particular skin lesion to pain, heat and touch.

Thickened nerves, which can be felt below the skin, is also another feature of leprosy. There may be loss of sensation in the skin and weakness of muscles supplied by that affected nerve.

Patients who have leprosy for the long term may lose their hands or feet due to repeated injury resulting from lack of sensation. Inadequate care of wounds leads to gangrene, and the body tissues then die and become deformed.

Its victims were often shunned by the community, kept at arm's length, or sent to a leper colony.

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Yes but lepers are not forced to stay there.

Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, is a bacterial infection. It is curable and not highly communicable. According to the World Health Organization, there were about 890,000 identified cases world-wide in 1997, with the vast majority of those cases in India, Indonesia, and Myanamar.

Mycobacterium leprae.

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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.

Alice Ball invented an oil against leprosy.

often in scripture it talks anout how Jesus healed many and some of those people were lepers...i do not know of any other impotance.

it is a bacterial infection which is a bacteria

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The incidence of leprosy is highest in the poverty belt of the globe.

There is no vaccine for leprosy. India and Brazil currently use the Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) vaccine but that is for TB. The effectiveness of this approach is widely disputable and the search goes on.

Facial involvement can produce a lion-like appearance (leonine facies).

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.

Here is a website actually a few of them where you can learn even more on this disease.

http://www.webspawner.com/users/prashan/

http://www.who.int/lep/en/

http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/leprosy-10651

It is now also known as Hansen's Disease as well.

This link will give you a whole bunch of links on the drugs and other information on leprosy through WebMD.

http://www.webmd.com/search/search_results/default.aspx?query=leprosy&sourceType=undefined

Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease that is also known as Hansen's disease. Leprosy reproduces by binary fission that takes place every 10 to 14 days.

leprosy is being treated well and their medicine costs £21 each. A helping organisation is Lepra. People with leprosy take this medicine daily for as long as they need,