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Article: Ancient Disease Still Afflicts Millions.
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
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Although thought by many to be a disease of the past, more than 800,000 new cases of leprosy were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1998. Every hour, 65 people around the world get the disease, 11 of whom are children. Leprosy is most endemic in Third World countries like India, Brazil, and Indonesia, with 1,500,-000-2,000,000 known incidents around the globe. WHO reported 112 new cases in the U.S. in 1998.
American Leprosy Missions, the nation's oldest leprosy assistance organization, is more active today than at any time in its history, with a program that aims to cure 125,000 people of the disease by 2001. It provides field training for ...