tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24322805.post209227307410934349..comments2023-10-23T21:51:50.558+01:00Comments on Blogging since everyone else does: earlyMudwighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11190434066154637394noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24322805.post-7118261698107420002009-02-24T22:41:00.000+00:002009-02-24T22:41:00.000+00:00Sung to the tune of Yesterday.Leprosy, bits and pi...Sung to the tune of Yesterday.<BR/>Leprosy, bits and pieces falling off of me, I'm not half the man I used to be, Oh I believe in Leprosy.<BR/>Sorry, I'll get my coat.rubbishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230592849937945467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24322805.post-13094485999893519892009-02-22T12:37:00.000+00:002009-02-22T12:37:00.000+00:00i should really have elaborated. i don't know why ...i should really have elaborated. i don't know why i was thinking about it, but it always seemed quite a biblical disease to me. just reading more about it and apparently 95% of people are immune to it. how it's transmitted is still not exactly known. also syphilis allegedly got mistaken for leprosy!<BR/><BR/>and that's enough learning for one day.Mudwighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11190434066154637394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24322805.post-4243709623038216742009-02-22T11:11:00.000+00:002009-02-22T11:11:00.000+00:00The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates ther...The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates there are 830,000 cases of the disease worldwide. It is most prevalent in poverty-stricken areas of in Asia, Africa and Latin America. <BR/><BR/>The disease is curable, but the effectiveness of the treatment is dependant on an early diagnosis.<BR/><BR/>Since 1982 the WHO has recommended multidrug therapy (MDT). Patients are given a cocktail of strong antibiotics which can completely cure the tuberculoid form of the disease within six months and the more infectious lepromatous form within two years.<BR/><BR/>A combination of drugs must be used because the leprosy bacteria can develop resistence to antibiotics very quickly.<BR/><BR/>If treatment is started early, deformities and disabilities can be prevented.<BR/><BR/>MDT also makes the few highly-infectious patients non-infectious very quickly, which helps prevent the spread of leprosy.<BR/><BR/>To date more than eight million patients have been totally cured of leprosy.<BR/><BR/>However, because most cases of the disease occur in difficult to reach places, many of them are not treated early enough.Joppa Roadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03724137542198967498noreply@blogger.com