LEPROSY

By Isabel Thompson
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WHAT IS
LEPROSY?
LEPROSY

BACTERIAL SLOW TO DEVELOP ATTACKS BODY TREAT IMMEDIATELY

Caused by a This bacteria It attacks the It can become
slow-growing can take as long nerves under the very serious if
bacteria called as 20 years to skin, causing left untreated
Mycobacterium show signs of serious damage
leprae infection
 TYPES OF LEPROSY

TUBERCULOID LEPROSY LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY BORDERLINE LEPROSY

The body's immune The immune response A combination
system response is is poor, negatively between the two
good, and the affecting the skin types that shows
disease is mild and and other organs. signs of both.
not very contagious This is very
contagious.
 TRANSMISSION

AIRBORNE
You cannot catch the
It is spread through
disease through
the air, so a person
casual contact, such
can catch the disease
as shaking hands or
if they come into
hugging an infected
contact with an
person. Close,
infected person who
prolonged contact
is sneezing or
would have to be made
coughing.
in order to become
infected.
WHO IS AT RISK?

Those who live in places such as

India, Brazil, China, Indonesia,
or parts of Africa

Children

Contact with armadillos

People already
weakened from other
chronic diseases
PREVALENCE

Africa

India

Brazil
STATISTICS 200,000
New cases reported worldwide
each year

3,000,000
People living with irreversible
disabilities

95%
People who are naturally immune
to the disease
SYMPTOMS Blindness, facial

OF THE
weakness

DISEASE Enlarged and painful

nerves

Muscle weakness or
paralysis

Rashes and
inflammation on skin
 DIAGNOSIS

SKIN PATCHES NUMBNESS BIOPSY

Leprosy can be A lack of feeling A piece of skin or
diagnosed by in certain parts nerve can also be
looking at patches of the body also taken to look for
of skin that indicates this the bacteria, and
differ in color disease rule out other
from the rest skin diseases
 TREATMENT
Usually a combination of antibiotics are used, called multi-drug
therapy.

This includes:
● Rifampicin
● Dapsone
● Clofazimine

This process of treatment can take one to two years. While

antibiotics will kill the bacteria, it cannot reverse any nerve
damage or paralysis done by the disease.
 PREVENTION

AVOIDANCE LOW RISK

Avoid coming into It is not much of
contact with a concern
infected people considering the
risk is very low,
especially in the
CLEANLINESS US, but still
practice proper
Consistently wash hygiene and other
hands, especially disease-preventing
when others around processes
you are sneezing
or coughing
Modern medicine
means it is very
unlikely to die
from leprosy, if
caught early on.
 1. World Leprosy Day is recognized on the last

INTERESTING 2.
Sunday of January each year
Leprosy is now more commonly called Hansen’s

FACTS Disease, named after a Norwegian scientist who

discovered the bacteria in 1873
3. Armadillos are often carriers of the bacteria,
and can spread it to humans
4. Leprosy has been around since 600 B.C
5. People who were infected used to be sent to
leper colonies to live away from society, and
while that no longer happens the stigma still
exists
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