41. ILEP -FAQs About Leprosy Frequently asked questions about leprosy on The International Federation of AntileprosyAssociation s (ILEP) website. Frequently asked questions about leprosy. http://www.ilep.org.uk/faq.htm

Home About ILEP News Publications and Documents ... Links Frequently asked questions about Leprosy WHAT IS LEPROSY? A chronic, infectious disease caused by a bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae. INFECTIOUS? Yes, but around 95% of people have immune systems able to cope with the bacteria. IS THERE A CURE FOR LEPROSY? Yes. Leprosy can now be cured completely through a combination of drugs (Multidrug therapy or MDT). Several MDT regimens were introduced in 1982, following research recommendations for the treatment of leprosy. WHERE IS LEPROSY FOUND GEOGRAPHICALLY? Leprosy was endemic in Western Europe during Medieval times, and was only eliminated from Scandinavia in the early twentieth century. The decline of leprosy in Europe before a successful drug treatment was available, is attributed to the improvement in living standards, better housing, clean water supplies, and improved nutrition and hygiene. Leprosy today is found mainly in developing countries, in tropical areas. DOES IT HAVE ANY OTHER NAMES?

42. Welcome To Our Foundation - Novartis Foundation For Sustainable Development Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development (NFSD) leprosy control project; multiple drug therapy (mdt), physical, economic social rehabilitation of leprosy patients http://www.foundation.novartis.com/leprosy_turkey.htm

German News Contact Sitemap ... About us International Symposium Human Rights and the Private Sector Read the Detailed Report Redesign of the Website Welcome to our Foundation We aim to improve the quality of life for poor people in developing countries by improving access to healthcare through development projects, think tank efforts and dialogue facilitation Did you know that Novartis and the Novartis Foundation provide free treatment for all leprosy patients in the world? Learn More About the Donation What We Want To Achieve Who We Are Why We Exist , and Where We Are Coming From We contribute to the definition and discussion of key issues about sustainable development through our Publications, Presentations and Symposia We promote grassroots development initiatives in the areas of Right to Health and Health Access to Basic Health Care Access to Malaria Treatment and Leprosy Elimination document.write('<'); document.write('! ');

43. Web Service By Society Of Korean Leprogist. Provides necessary information for leprosy research and control, and to promote information exchange among peoples concerned with leprosy medically, administratively, or in other related areas. http://www.leprosy.or.kr/

44. EMedicine - Neuropathy Of Leprosy : Article By Ramaratnam Sridharan, MD Neuropathy of leprosy leprosy is the most common treatable cause of neuropathyin the world. All patients with leprosy have involvement of nerve tissue. http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic266.htm

(advertisement) Home Specialties Resource Centers CME ... Patient Education Articles Images CME Patient Education Advanced Search Consumer Health Link to this site Back to: eMedicine Specialties Neurology Neuromuscular Diseases Neuropathy of Leprosy Last Updated: December 6, 2001 Rate this Article Email to a Colleague Synonyms and related keywords: neuropathy due to Hansen disease, lepromatous neuropathy, Mycobacterium leprae neuropathy, indeterminate leprosy, tuberculoid leprosy, lepromatous leprosy, dimorphous leprosy, tuberculoid neuritis, neuritic leprosy, leprous neuropathy AUTHOR INFORMATION Section 1 of 11 Author Information Introduction Clinical Differentials ... Bibliography Author: Ramaratnam Sridharan, MD , Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Apollo Hospital, Sri Ramachandra Medical College, India Coauthor(s): Nicholas Lorenzo, MD , eMedicine Chief Publishing Officer, Chief Editor, eMedicine Neurology; Consulting Staff, Neurology Specialists and Consultants Ramaratnam Sridharan, MD, is a member of the following medical societies:

45. Blessed Damien Society-An Oganization Working With Lepers In Vietnam Volunteer organization aiming to prevent leprosy and to treat its victims. Details of the organization, its projects and the disease. http://www.damientheleper.org/

English This is a non-profit, tax-exempt volunteer organization. The main objective of The Society is to stop the progression of leprosy and minister to its residual effects. Blessed Damien Society 7887 Walmsley Ave., New Orleans, LA 70125 Novena in honor of Blessed Damien Feast Day May 10

46. Communicable Disease Fact Sheet leprosy. Version en español. (Hansen s disease). What is leprosy?leprosy is a chronic bacterial disease of the skin and nerves in http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/communicable_diseases/en/leprosy.htm

Return to Communicable Disease Home Page From the ... What's New Leprosy (Hansen's disease) What is leprosy? Leprosy is a chronic bacterial disease of the skin and nerves in the hands and feet and, in some cases, the lining of the nose. Leprosy is a rare disease in the United States. Who gets leprosy? Anyone can get leprosy, but children seem to be more susceptible than adults. How is leprosy spread? It is not clear how the leprosy germ is spread, but household and prolonged close contact is important. The germs probably enter the body through the nose and possibly through broken skin. The germs get in the air through nasal discharge of untreated lepromatous patients. What are the symptoms of leprosy? Tuberculoid leprosy symptoms are a few well-defined skin lesions that are numb. Lepromatous leprosy symptoms are a chronically stuffy nose and many skin lesions and nodules on both sides of the body. How soon after exposure do symptoms appear? It usually takes about four years for tuberculoid leprosy symptoms to appear and about eight years for lepromatous leprosy symptoms to appear. When and for how long is a person able to spread leprosy?

47. Damien Foundation India Trust Provides healthcare to the less privileged with its main focus on leprosy control. Information about its projects, objectives, staff, and campaigns. http://www.damienfoundationindia.org/

48. NEW HOPE India Organization working with people who have leprosy. Raises funds for crippled childrens polio surgery and street children rehabilitation. http://www.zyworld.com/newhopeindia/index.html

Children's Goodwill Care You please tell us (Click Here) Secure Online Giving with CharityCard ... (Click Here) The 'core' of our work, the thing on which we stay focused, is the care of those affected with leprosy. It is true that the number of new cases is declining and that about the most wonderful news we can tell anyone but... The already deformed and those too old to go begging still need our help. One of the simple things we do is to give at Christmas - a 'Bundle of Love' containing a set of clothing, winter blanket, toiletries and protective footwear to prevent ulcers. Give Pounds 10 or Euro 16 and we will put your name on the gift if you wish.

49. India Charity Organisations, Education System Residential Schools India Charitie Details of an UK charity, providing education for the children of prostitutes and people with leprosy. http://www.orissa.org.uk

Friends Of The Children Of Orissa Home About us Newsletters School Children ... Charity Donations Save a girl in India from a life of misery Every penny goes to the 300 children in Orissa! We are one of a few India charity organisations providing UK charity donations to support not several residential schools, but a single boarding school in Bhubaneswar, India. Every penny of charity donations goes to cover the cost of the childrens' residential education (keep and education). None of your money will be spent on fundraising, administration, travel or the other expenses associated with the more familiar charity appeals. Neither does it go towards other India based Charity organisations. It all goes to providing our pupils with good boarding school education and the best school life the charity donations can provide for our pupils. Who are we ? What do we do ? We are a small education charity set up in 1992 to assist Palli Unnayan Seva Samiti in Orissa, still our main partner. Our main purpose is to raise charity donations for the up-keep and provision of one of the best international charity funded, residential schools in India as without an official India school education more than 300 children from sexworker and leprosy colonies in Orissa would grow up to become uneducated, impoverished women. We do this mainly through 'word of mouth' publicity, circulars to regular and potential supporters information, stalls at local events, and applications to funding agencies. Our supporters include friends from Cranfield School of Management, from Filgrave near Milton Keynes, from Bozeat in Northamptonshire, and from many other places in the UK and abroad.

50. Global Project On The History Of Leprosy The Global Project on the History of leprosy is the initiative of the Internationalleprosy Association (utilizing the Nippon Foundation fund through WHO) and http://www.leprosyhistory.org/english/englishhome.htm

You are here Home The Project The Global Project on the History of Leprosy is the initiative of the International Leprosy Association (utilizing the Nippon Foundation fund through WHO ) and the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford . The Project is developing a database of leprosy archives around the world, as a working tool for researchers who are interested in the modern history of leprosy, dating from 1847, when Danielssen and Boeck published Om Spedalskhed . It will also be of interest to those connected with leprosy and its impact. The collections mentioned on the database have a wide range of organisational, policy, scientific and medical archives as well as leprosaria records, museums and libraries. Also included are private collections of those who have worked in the field and collections of testimonies from people affected by the disease. The project does not hold any of these records, but provides information of their existence and whereabouts. While the database creates pathways for researchers, the project will both encourage the preservation of archives and establish a network of researchers.

51. Homepage Dedicated to improve public health status of the community through implementing control programmes for leprosy and other allied diseases. http://www.lepraindia.org/

New Requirement About Us Leprosy Facts Projects ... Workshops E-mail: info@lepraindia.org This site is designed and powered by India Domain Web Services Pvt. Ltd. www.indiadomain.com

52. Leprosy Throughout The Ages leprosy Throughout the Ages. by Eleanor E. Storrs. Until the comingof AIDS, leprosy was the most feared of infectious diseases. http://pandoras-box.org/my05002.htm

Leprosy Throughout the Ages by Eleanor E. Storrs Until the coming of AIDS, leprosy was the most feared of infectious diseases. Even today, it warps the lives of millions of people; mostly in South America, Africa, and the Orient. The Black Death that swept though Europe in the last half of the 14th century, killing one third of the people, was more violent in its ravages. But it came and went quickly, like a great earthquake, followed by a series of after shocks. Leprosy has tormented humans since the dawn of history; leaving lasting imprints on religion, literature, and art. It is a deep rooted part of the human psyche, with both mystical and physical meanings. Asians and Africans call it "the big disease" in many tongues because of the damage done to soul and body of those cursed with it. We know nothing certain about the origins of leprosy, except that it is old, very old. An account of a disease that could be leprosy appears in an Egyptian papyrus inscribed about 1552-1350 B.C. But this is an imaginative guess, made by modern scholars, that could be wrong. Indian writings dated at 600 B.C, describe a disease that most experts agree was leprosy. It does not appear in the records of ancient Greece until the army of Alexander the Great came back from India in 326 B.C. In Rome, the first mention coincides with the return of Pompey's troops from Asia Minor in 62 B.C. Thus Asia could be the cradle of infection.

53. NEW HOPE India Organization working with people who have leprosy. Raises funds for crippled childrens polio surgery. Donors needed for street children rehabilitation. Also accepts other help from volunteers. http://www.zyworld.com/newhopeindia/

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the (a small piece of the world) ... and for children with AIDS found on railway station platforms - we can change their lives and the quality of care they need, and give them love in their short time in this world.

54. LEPROSY IN INDIA leprosy IN INDIA Vol. 51 No. The question of leprosy in Wild Armadillos was thesubject of an editorial by Dharmendra in leprosy IN INDIA in April 1978. http://pandoras-box.org/my09022.htm

LEPROSY IN INDIA Vol. 51 No. 1, January 1979 EXAMINATION OF NORTH AMERICAN ARMADILLOS FOR MYCOBACTERIOSIS- A FURTHER REPORT by W.F. Kirchheimer The question of "Leprosy in Wild Armadillos" was the subject of an editorial by Dharmendra in LEPROSY IN INDIA in April 1978. He stated that "where leprosy-like disease is found in wild armadillos, the possible source or sources of the infection should be carefully investigated." Carville's search for "natural" leprosy was initiated when Dr. Sohan L. Issar informed Carville staff in November 1973 that he had discovered a generalized mycobacteriosis in an experimentally uninfected armadillo housed at Gulf South Research Institute (GSRI) for 2 years. His detailed communication and speculation about possible origins of the infection were printed in LEPROSY SCIENTIFIC MEMORANDA, February 1976, Memo L 778. In the issue of LEPROSY IN INDIA which carried Dharmendra's editorial Kirchheimer and Sanchez published their results of search for leprosy-like mycobacterioses from 1 January 1974 to 31 December 1977. These findings are summarized in Table 1. No leprosy-like disease was found in any of 373 armadillos. Two hundred eighty-two of these were caught in Louisiana, 78 in Florida and 13 in Texas. Since then additional information has become available and it is the purpose to present Carville's later findings and discuss their implications. Table II shows that between January 1974 and 30 June 1978, 396 individual wild-caught armadillos were examined. Three hundred six armadillos were from Louisiana and the rest from Florida and Texas. No leprosy-like mycobacteriosis was found in 395 armadillos (99.75%).

55. Leprosy Mission Australia http://www.leprosymission.org.au/

56. LEPRA Welcomes Time Team Viewers The leprosy Relief Association outlines the history of the leper hospital at Winchester investigated by Time Team. Request form for booklets History of leprosy, leprosy in Britain and leprosy in the Bible. http://www.lepra.org.uk/timeteam/

LEPRA welcomes Time Team viewers WINCHESTER - St. Mary Magdalene Old 'leper' hospital of St Bartholomews, Oxford. Mediaeval 'leper' with his bell. From a British Museum manuscript . The history of leprosy. If you would like to order a booklet please telephone us on (08451) 212121 or send a cheque payable to 'LEPRA' to our normal address (please remember to let us know which booklet(s) you require and enclose your return address). Leprosy in Britain History of Leprosy Leprosy in the Bible Each year around 700,000 new I would like to make a donation to LEPRA I would like some further information on LEPRA I would like some information on leprosy today

57. 301 Moved Permanently that website s Webmaster about this change. Your browser should redirectyou any second now. If not, follow this link leprosy.html. http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~ee0r/leprosy.html

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58. LEPRA The British leprosy Relief Association. http://www.lepra.org.uk/home.html

59. Dan & Eric Leprosy Week Elliott C. Evans. Oh, no, leprosy Armadillos can get it I hope I do not. jimz. Ulcersbloom with spring. - Kurt Schaefer. Sure glad i don t have leprosy. http://www.ee0r.com/leprosy.html

In the following week, these haiku were posted either to the mailing list, or to the zephyr instance: The scabs and sores that Plague my body are often Worse in the springtime. - Elliott C. Evans In the late autumn, When leaves wither and fall down, My nose crumbles off. - Elliott C. Evans Like Job bemoaning The loss of his family I weep for my ear. - Elliott C. Evans Oh, no, leprosy Armadillos can get it I hope I do not. - jimz Simon was leprous He left long trails of organs Boy, was that sucky! Doug DeCarlo On a windy day Guns are unnecessary To blow my head off. - Doug DeCarlo Check extremities. No summer sun can wake these from numbing winter. - Kurt Schaefer Oh the fetid smell. Dull senses alert too late. Ulcers bloom with spring. - Kurt Schaefer Sure glad i don't have Leprosy. That would really Suck in the winter. - Axel Essbaum In winter we play Hockey except when there's a Face off on the ice. - Joby My life is Winter Yet my soul is the Summer My limbs are just Fall. Chris Rapier Breeze over the lake See the ducks flutter and splash Hate! Hate! Hate! Hate! Hate!

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