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Article: Leprosy.(Health)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- August 31, 2003
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How widespread is leprosy at present? I know that the disease was widespread and incurable during earlier times, but we seldom hear about it nowadays. What are the signs and symptoms of the disease and is it now curable? Lovely C., Manila
Leprosy is one of the earliest diseases known to man. Accounts of people with the disease exist in both the old and the new testaments and evidence indicates the disease existed as early as 1500 B.C.
Leprosy is an infection caused by a type of bacteria. Mycobacterium leprae the first disease-causing bacteria in man to be ever identified. The leprosy-causing microorganisms was discovered in 1869 by a Norwegian ...