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Da Kine...and O.A. Bushnell Father Damien, Jozef De Veuster, was canonized on Oct. 11, 2009, for his work with ostracized leprosy (now called Hansen's disease) patients in Kalaupapa, Molokai. But he was not alone. The Hawaiian Islands were an... In this article: Leprosy, Pain and suffering, Christmas Eve, Molokai, Father Damien, United States, Kalaupapa, and Hawaiian Islands |
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Honolulu Star Bulletin | 1 day ago
Newswatch
...10 public meeting will be held on the federal agency's General Management Plan for the Molokai peninsula where people stricken with leprosy were isolated from 1866 to 1969. The hearing will be from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Bishop Museum Atherton...
In this article: National Park Service, E mail, Polyp, Leeward Community College, and Pearl City
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Medical News Today | 1 day ago
Five Years Battling The Stigma Of Leprosy
...which affects their employment and marriage prospects and deprives them of basic human rights. They are described using the derogatory term 'leper', and are often treated as pariahs. Many are compelled to live their lives separately from the...
In this article: Yohei Sasakawa, Nippon Foundation, MDT, World Health Organisation, London, Sustainable development, Medical advice, and Novartis Foundation
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Asbury Park Press | 2 days ago
Dobbs in political mode
This from a man once described as illegal immigrants' No. 1 enemy, a man who once accused undocumented Mexican workers of bringing leprosy into the United States and who regularly railed on his program about how illegal immigrants...
In this article: Lou Dobbs, Robert Menendez, U.S. Senate, New Jersey, Telemundo, Sussex County, United States, and CNN
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Gawker | 4 days ago
Lou Dobbs Loves Immigrants Now, Everyone [Assholes]
...you called them "an army of invaders," you said they wanted to reannex the Southwestern United States, you claimed they were spreading leprosy, you spent hours of airtime openly, blatantly lying, in order to inflame anti-immigrant...
In this article: Telemundo, Maria Celeste, Mexico, and U.S.
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New Kerala | 5 days ago
Over 134,000 infected with leprosy in 2008-09: Azad
New Delhi, Nov 24: There were over 134,000 new leprosy infections in 2008-09 but the number is slowly decreasing in India, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday. "Leprosy related cases are not rising in the...
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Crooks and Liars | November 21, 2009
Dobbs lies to Telemundo about his phony leprosy story: 'I did not stand behind that reportage'
..."Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons". She said, "Hansen's disease" -- that's the other modern name, I guess, for leprosy -- "Hansen's disease was so rare in the America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly, in...
In this article: Lou Dobbs, Christine Romans, Lesley Stahl, Telemundo, and Malaria
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washingtonpost.com | November 18, 2009
An unfair policy on AIDS is lifted
...contact and that infection is preventable. The same cannot be said for active tuberculosis, cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, infectious leprosy, diphtheria and other diseases that remain on the travel-ban list. The process for eliminating...
In this article: AIDS, HIV, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, United States, Cholera, Diphtheria, Yellow fever, and Smallpox
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scotsman.com - Books | November 06, 2009
Book review: The Leper's Bell
...this article in full you must be registered with the site. THERE is a curious anecdote in Norman Maclean's lively autobiography, The Leper's Bell. A west Highland musician friend of Maclean's had recently returned from entertaining Billy...
In this article: Norman Maclean, Leper, Runrig, Scotland, Second World War, Brigitte Bardot, and Loch Arkaig
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Priyanka does documentary for leprosy awareness
According to Veera Rao, the director of the organization, the documentary will be presented on November 5 at a charity dinner. The documentary was supposed to be in English only, but Priyanka asked them to do a Hindi version too because it...
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Mankind And Leprosy Bacteria
...an undesirable and persistent companion has been travelling with man wherever he goes. Mycobacterium leprae, the bacterium that causes leprosy, has only one known natural host - mankind. And because of man's many travels, this bacillus has...
In this article: Mycobacterium leprae, HIV, Medical advice, FLU, Antibiotic, and EPFL
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Leprosy (from the Greek lepi (λέπι), meaning scales on a fish), or Hansen's disease, is a chronic disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae. Leprosy is primarily a granulomatous disease of the peripheral nerves and mucosa of the upper respiratory tract; skin lesions are the primary external symptom. Left untreated, leprosy can be progressive, causing permanent damage to the skin, nerves, limbs and eyes. Contrary to popular belief, leprosy does not actually cause body parts to simply fall off.
Historically, leprosy has affected mankind since at least 600 BC, and was well-recognized in the civilizations of ancient China, Egypt and India. In 1995, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that between two and three million people were permanently disabled because of leprosy. Although the forced quarantine or segregation of patients is unnecessary—and can be considered unethical—a few leper colonies still remain around the world, in countries such as India, Japan, Egypt, Nepal and Vietnam. It is now commonly believed that many of the people who were segregated into these communities were presumed to have leprosy, when they actually had syphilis. Leprosy is not highly infectious, as approximately 95% of people are immune and sufferers are no longer infectious after only a couple of days on treatment. They would not have spread leprosy through a community; whereas syphilis, which has similar symptoms, is more contagious.
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