which may present as severe skin rashes, difficulty breathing, or swollen lips. Advice for patients and public Leprosy is a curable disease. Therefore, patients should complete the full course of ...

NASARAWA, Nigeria - The World Health Organization says it will send leprosy drugs to Nigeria this weekend after resolving testing hold-ups that led to a year-long delay in thousands of patients ...

GOSHI, Kumamoto Prefecture--A national leprosy sanitarium here has found ... Residents complained of side effects such as fatigue, paresthesia, rashes and nausea. Nine people died during the ...

Leprosy is present in 12 countries worldwide, with Nigeria, Brazil, India, and Indonesia among the most impacted, reporting between 1,000 to 10,000 cases annually. Kashmir: Choosing to live in a ...

The bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, initially developed to provide protection against TB, also protects against leprosy; and the magnitude of this effect varies. Previous meta-analyses ...