leprosy

I've been to a leprosy clinic, and how many people does that disease infect, really ? 10 worldwide, on a yearly basis ?

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice "The game is done!

“I went to the comedy show and the comedian said something about the lord, and I was offended, and when I woke up in the morning, I had leprosy." Nothing Happens!

By that measure, leprosy and the black death were "endurable and honorable" for humans. Or, to give a somewhat more Biblical example, so was war.

Reading Wired in public is modern leprosy - thankfully neither are too contagious.

So you end up in a situation where you go to the doctor with a rash and your diagnosis is "an allergy to strawberries or leprosy".

It sounds as if this one is nothing to do with vaccination, but with treatment of diseases such as leprosy, tuberculosis and sleeping sickness.

Many animals carry influenza or plague, but isn't leprosy limited to humans and armadillos?

Org/watch/d0f942b2-6b4f-4923-9f88-7ad8fde4a01c Some interesting tidbits from the video: - "70 percent of the world's leprosy is in India." - "People with leprosy are treated as untouchables ... Every month, people from the leprosy colony travel to the city to beg.

It's surprising that 37 signals isn't labeled a "lifestyle" company, which is practically like leprosy when it comes to funding and media attention.

This article isn't about giving yourself leprosy and then infecting immunocompromised people. For you to conflate "bad" bacteria with "good" bacteria is ignorant and massively hurtful to the cause of human health.

Polio, leprosy and even the black death are merely contained to a varying degree, often only in developed countries even though vaccines or cheap, effective treatments exist. So investing in connectivity and helping to spread information may actually be a viable path.

I don't know whether the policy has changed since I read of it many years ago, but the Cuban government treated HIV infection pretty much the way the US government once treated leprosy: turn up positive, and you were quarantined.

The "single payer" alternative is considered so radical in USA that it's mentioned in the corporate media only apologetically, as if it were advocacy of leprosy. When they can't avoid mentioning the obvious, the rejection of it is euphemistically explained by saying that it is "politically unrealistic" - before a quick change of topic.